An interactive map showing rubbish bins has been created in Mykolaiv

An interactive map of household waste collection containers located throughout the city has been developed in Mykolaiv.

This was announced during an open staff meeting on 12 January, according to NikVesti.

The map shows the locations of containers in different areas of the city, their capacity, addresses, and the types of buildings they serve: private or multi-storey.

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Currently, the municipal enterprise Mykolaivkomtrans serves 984 sites and 2,124 waste containers, while «Obrii» serves 116 sites and 368 containers, according to Deputy Mayor Yurii Andriienko.

The map is still being finalised, added Dmytro Kanarskyi, head of the city council's standardisation department. The information is gradually being updated, new locations are being added, and existing data is being refined.

The map is available at the link.

Interactive map with rubbish bins in Mykolaiv, screenshot

Arson of rubbish bins in Mykolaiv

Back in early 2023, the City Council's Department of Housing and Communal Services signed a contract with the company Ukrresurs to purchase a thousand rubbish bins for 7.2 million hryvnias. The cost of one bin was 7,200 hryvnias.

In the spring of the same year, in the Korabelnyi district of the city, municipal workers partially replaced old galvanised rubbish bins with new plastic ones.

And in the summer of 2023, Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych reported that 17 new plastic containers for household waste collection had been burned in the city in two months.

In total, during 2023, Mykolaiv residents burned 48 plastic containers for household waste collection.

In 2024, unknown persons destroyed another 68 waste containers belonging to the Mykolaivkomtrans company. The damage was estimated at 472,300 hryvnias.

As of September 2025, unknown persons burned 200 plastic containers for collecting household waste. The municipal enterprise Mykolaivkomtrans purchased new ones — made of iron.