A bulldozer drives at the landfill No. 5 in Pidhirtsi, Kyiv Oblast. Founded 34 years ago, the landfill has about 465,000 tons of trash buried in it annually, posing a great risk to the local environment.

Ukraine’s landfills are overflowing and life-threatening.

The country has 6,107 legal landfills and dumps and 26,610 illegal dumps. Most of them can’t hold any more waste and don’t meet safety standards, posing great harm to the environment and public health.

Source: www.kyivpost.com

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