In 2022, each resident of the city of Nitra produced an average of 649 kg of municipal food of waste and the level of municipal waste sorting for this year was less than 48%.
Aye despite the fact that the amount of sorted waste regularly increases from year to year to 1 of the city's inhabitants (44 kg in 2010 and 288 kg in 2021), in total production of municipal waste among the regional cities of the Slovak Republic per 1 inhabitant is still more than 600 kg an unflattering record.
In addition, the city of Nitra receives a significant part of the generated municipal waste landfills, i.e. disposes of it in the least ecological way. On April 20, 2023 in the premises of the Nitra communal services at Nábreží mládeže 87. 2 piles of mixed municipal waste were prepared, each weighing approximately 1,200 kg, while one was from collection from family houses (IBV = individual housing construction) and the second consisted of municipal waste from the flats of the Klokočina housing estate (KBV = collective housing construction).
The students correctly separated the waste into the prepared bags and finally sorted the types of waste they dared. If the inhabitants of selected parts of the city approached the classification of municipal waste more responsibly, so from the mentioned heap, which was at the beginning, would realistically be landfilled there was approximately 40% less municipal waste.
There was a relatively high amount of kitchen waste in the mixed municipal waste waste and unconsumed, unwrapped food, including meat (more than 60 kg), amount of glass (40 kg), textiles and shoes (72 kg), plastics (69 kg) and paper (35 kg). All of them these municipal waste commodities both in IBV and in KBV are possible within the city of Nitry to separate.
In the analysis carried out, there was also one positive finding that in mixed municipal waste from KBV, only 4 PET bottles and 9 beverage cans with the "Z" logo were found. The first such analysis in Nitra showed that the largest share of waste that could be separated from family houses, made up garden organic waste (16%). They followed him plastics, textiles and kitchen biowaste. All three waste components were equally represented by four percentages. The "winner" of the ranking in the family houses category is also surprising because all households have k a 120-liter container for organic waste is available, which NKS takes out once every two weeks.
During the analysis of waste from apartment buildings, it was found that the largest share of unsorted waste is textiles followed by plastics. Both commodities reached a six percent share. Kitchen biowaste made up four percent. It is clear from this that only in the case of proper sorting of waste, a source of plastic is created wastes (10% ZKO) that are not recyclable classically for 60 Eurex Eco technology.
