Odesa allocated 200 thousand for measuring inputs on ownerless territories

Acting Mayor Ihor Koval has signed an order to allocate funds from the Odesa City Environmental Protection Fund to provide services to determine the amount of waste in the city's territories whose owner has not been identified.

According to the press service of the Odesa City Council, the amount of money is 200 thousand hryvnias.

Odesa regularly suffers from illegal landfills and garbage in areas that are not on the balance sheet of institutions, enterprises, or private property. In fact, such areas are forced to be cleaned up by municipal institutions and district administrations are responsible for this.

For example, in July 2025, members of the Odesa City Council's Standing Committee on Emergency Situations and Elimination of Their Consequences, Ecology and Digital Transformation accused the leadership of the city's Peresypskyi District Administration of signing acts of completion when no work had been done. Svyatoslav Halanzovsky, head of the Peresypsky housing and communal services company, said that due to the smaller number of people, the company had to reduce the frequency of cleaning.

As for the landfills, in early April, employees of the State Environmental Inspectorate of the Southwestern District found an unauthorized landfill on the side of the M14 Odesa-Melitopol-Novoazovsk highway, which had been accumulating for a long time in the forest belt next to the road. The situation came to light after a resident reported that the area was heavily littered with household and construction waste.

After receiving the information, state inspectors went to the site and confirmed the violation. The inspection showed that the waste covered a large area. To solve the problem, the inspectorate appealed to the Odesa City Military Administration to bring the territory to proper condition. The garbage was removed.

They also removed garbage from the same illegal dump near Vladyslav Buvalkin Street in the Peresypskyi district of Odesa, where 300 square meters of garbage was cluttered. The inspectors appealed to the city council and the latter had to respond.

Кирило Бойко