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Kyiv's authorities will hold a tender to select an investor to build a waste sorting line with the capacity of around 240,000 tonnes per year at 44, Kolektorna Street, the press service of the Republic Kyiv faction reported on Thursday.

The decision was made by deputies of Kyiv City Council at a meeting of the permanent tender commission for the attraction of investors to the financing of the construction and reconstruction of residential and non-residential facilities, uncompleted construction projects and utilities infrastructure.

"At a commission meeting we considered the conditions of a tender to select an investor to build a waste sorting line, and approved them," reads the release, citing the faction chairman and chairman of Green Party of Ukraine, Denys Moskal, who heads the permanent commission for ecological policy.

He said that the capacities of the waste sorting line will be used to sort household waste collected from the left bank section of Kyiv.

At present, Interfax-Ukraine has not managed to learn the details of the project.

Moskal also said that Kyiv’s authorities also plan to build three waste sorting and three waste recycling plants, and reconstruct the Energiya incineration plant in Kyiv as a part of the program on household waste treatment until 2015.

As reported, Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has said that it supports a project to reconstruct the Energiya incineration plant using funds from the sale of quotas under Kyoto protocol.

In early October Chairman of the State Agency for Investment and National Projects Management (Ukrnatsproekt), Vladyslav Kaskiv said that he does not rule out that the upgrade of the Energiya incineration plant could be included in the list of national projects.

The chief department of the utilities economy at Kyiv City Administration is planning to spend Hr 240-250 million on the reconstruction of the Energiya incineration plant by 2013.

Two turbine generators will be installed next year, and heat will be supplied to the city’s network. The final stage for the installation of chemical filters is scheduled for 2013.