In connection with the repeated receipt of complaints from citizens The Vitebsk Regional Production and Trade Unitary Enterprise “EcoPolitech” (hereinafter referred to as the enterprise) of the Vitebsk Regional Committee of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection explains the following.

As a result of consideration of appeals, it was established that the enterprise is located at the production site located in Yanovich and specializes in the processing of polymeric materials and plastics.

According to the degree of impact on the atmospheric air of the production site of PUE ”EcoPolitech” in the settlement of Yanovich is established IV category of the object of impact.

For reference. The most significant objects of impact on the quality of atmospheric air belong to the I-III category of Vpossible.

The company has a special permit of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus for the right to carry out activities related to the impact on the environment, in terms of the use of waste of 1-3 hazard classes, neutralization and burial of waste.

According to the Sanitary Norms and Rules “Requirements for the organization of sanitary protection zones of enterprises, structures and other objects that are objects of impact on human health and the environment”, approved by Resolution No. 35 of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus of May 15, 2014 protective zone for the enterprise is maintained and is 100 meters.

The company has conducted an inventory of emissions of pollutants into the air, a draft of standards for permissible emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere has been developed.

Emissions of pollutants into the air from the existing stationary sources of the enterprise are carried out on the basis of an appropriate permit. The total emission of pollutants into the air from stationary sources is 5.1859 tons / year.

The Vitebsk Regional Laboratory of Analytical Control of the State Institution “Republican Center for Analytical Control in the Field of the Environment” in the course of analytical control over emissions of pollutants from the process equipment of an enterprise exceeded the standards for permissible emissions of pollutants.

According to the protocol of atmospheric air research dated October 29, 2015 No. 419 of the laboratory of the Vitebsk Regional Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health, the concentration of dibutyl phthalate, formaldehyde, phenol and carbon oxide in the atmospheric air at the border of the sanitary protection zone does not exceed the standards of maximum permissible concentrations pollutants in ambient air and standards for approximately safe levels of exposure to pollutants in ambient air of settlements and places of mass rest of the population, approved by the Decree of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus of December 30, 2010 No. 186.

According to the results of consideration of appeals, grounds for suspending (banning) the activities of PUE “EcoPolitech” are not established.