Waste products as alternative fuel for Belarusian cement mills

The possibility of using waste products that cannot be recycled as an alternative fuel for Belarusian cement mills is under consideration, BelTA learned from Belarusian Deputy Housing and Utilities Minister Anatoly Shagun on 24 July.

“We are now considering using part of the waste products, which cannot be recycled for manufacturing purposes, as an alternative fuel for cement mills. We may start implementing a pilot project in Grodno Oblast next year,” noted the official. In accordance with the project OAO Krasnoselskstroymaterialy will modernize its manufacturing facilities in order to use fuel made out of waste products. Respectively matters concerning the establishment of facilities across the country to make this alternative fuel will be discussed.

Anatoly Shagun also said that the construction of a factory to process complex household appliances in Minsk Oblast is in its final phase. At present refrigerators, TV sets, washing machines, and other kinds of complicated household appliances are manually disassembled and the resulting products are then used as recoverable materials. “Now it will be a mechanized enterprise that will automatically process large-size complicated household appliances. The enterprise will enable good industrial standards for processing and will increase the volume of collected complicated household appliances with consequent use of recoverable materials,” he explained.

Apart from that, the company OAO BelVTI has set up a system to collect complicated household appliances. “They are ready to use taxi procedures. Households will be able to order a vehicle to take away a household appliance for processing purposes for free,” said the Deputy Housing and Utilities Minister.

Apart from that, a plan has been approved in Belarus to create over 60 additional lines for sorting recoverable materials in enterprises that provide housing and utility services in 2014-2015.