The story of Novi Sanzhary community
   «Before implementing the waste management project, all neighboring villages would bring 
   their waste to our landfill. Rubbish was scattered not just around the landfill, but on the road
   leading to it as well. People were dumping waste everywhere. The wind would take the
   waste, especially polyethylene, all around the forest and neighboring territories. I wrote 
   stacks of papers addressing anyone from the regional authorities to the President, but no 
   reaction followed. If not for DESPRO, we would never have found a solution,»
   says Mykhailo Zaritskyi, starosta (village leader) of Zachepylivka village, Novi Sanzhary
   district of Poltava region.

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