MONITORING, MAPPING AND INVENTORY OF LANDFILLS OF KYIV CITY AND KYIV RE-GION CONTAINING WASTE OF TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE

Abstract

The high concentration of transport infrastructure in Kyiv city and Kyiv region creates the possibility of man-made emergencies. Therefore, there is an urgent issue of monitoring and inventory of landfills of both man-made waste, in general, and transport infrastructure waste, which will allow to assess the degree of danger of such facilities, their impact on the ecology of the region and to offer recommendations for optimal disposal of such landfills in the future and for improving the waste management in transport industry.

The purpose of this work is to create a register and to map landfills in Kyiv city and Kyiv region (both official and unofficial), which contain or may contain transport infrastructure waste. There is currently no such register, so this work is "pioneering" and will be useful for the analysis and further monitoring of such facilities.

First of all, it was taken into account that such waste may be contained in the municipal solid waste. Therefore, information on official landfills and disposal of such waste exported from Kyiv was analyzed. The next class of considered objects is objects of burial of transport equipment. Finally, an important class of objects is the actual territory of transport infrastructure objects (aviation, railway, automobile). The authors considered a significant number of such facilities within the city of Kyiv, as well as the territory of Boryspil International Airport.

According to the interpretation of high-resolution satellite images, a register of landfills in Kyiv city and Kyiv region that contain or may contain transport infrastructure waste has been created. Maps of the territories of these landfills were built using OpenStreetMap data, which were supplemented by the authors. The area and other characteristics of landfills are estimated. Two unofficial landfills with an area of ​​7.9 and 2.8 hectares were identified.