{"id":432935,"date":"2025-09-18T05:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/432935\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T05:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:53:13","slug":"leeds-experts-in-rubble-recycling-scheme-to-help-rebuild-ukraine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/432935\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds experts in rubble recycling scheme to help rebuild Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth BainesYorkshire<\/p>\n

\"SERGEYSERGEY DOLZHENKO\/EPA-EFE\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

It is estimated more than 150,000 buildings and structures have been lost since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine began<\/p>\n

Technology developed by researchers from Leeds will be used to recycle rubble in Ukraine left by the country’s ongoing conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n

Academics at the University of Leeds have partnered with Lviv Polytechnic National University (LPNU) to share ways to repurpose debris into high-quality building materials.<\/p>\n

Wreckage remnants are typically sent to landfill or reused as low-grade hardcore, backfill or landscaping materials.<\/p>\n

Dr Oleksii Hunyak, associate professor at LPNU, said the work would “directly contribute to the safe and rapid recovery of Ukraine”.<\/p>\n

It is estimated more than 150,000 buildings and structures have been lost since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine began in 2022.<\/p>\n

According to the United Nations Development Programme, the cost of rebuilding is thought to be hundreds of billions of pounds.<\/p>\n

“There is a lot of destruction,” said Dr Hunyak.<\/p>\n

“There is no safe city in Ukraine; it is devastating.<\/p>\n

“Residential buildings are most affected but bridges, power plants and roads have been destroyed.<\/p>\n

“It is heartwarming to understand that we can do something practical that can make an impact.”<\/p>\n

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Dr Oleksii Hunyak and Prof Taras Markiv visited the University of Leeds to understand how technology pioneered in Leeds, could help rebuild their home<\/p>\n

Dr Hunyak and his colleague Prof Taras Markiv visited the University of Leeds to share academic research and understand how technology pioneered in Leeds could help rebuild their home.<\/p>\n

Prof Markiv said: “Two years ago a missile fell not far from my apartment – all of the windows were shattered, our front door was blown out – my children were scared.<\/p>\n

“I would like to say that I have done my best to rebuild our country.<\/p>\n

“We will bring the information from the UK and share with our colleagues.”<\/p>\n

The technology includes a mobile advanced dry recovery processor, which fits on the back of a lorry and travels to bomb sites to recycle materials on-site.<\/p>\n

At each location it upcycles concrete from bombed buildings by separating the damaged material into sand, stone and cement.<\/p>\n

The system will be deployed in Ukraine through the Safe, Sustainable and Swift Reconstruction of Ukraine (S3RoU) programme.<\/p>\n

S3RoU is backed by the InnovateUkraine programme, led by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and is funded by a \u00a316m investment from the UK government.<\/p>\n

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Prof Leon Black and Prof Theodore Hanein said the research could go beyond Ukraine and promote world-wide sustainable practice<\/p>\n

Due to the sheer scale of debris in the war zone, traditional methods to reuse “end-of-life” building materials are not feasible.<\/p>\n

“There is just too much,” said Leon Black, professor of infrastructure materials at the University of Leeds.<\/p>\n

“This offers a valuable opportunity to share knowledge while promoting environmentally sustainable rebuilding practices.”<\/p>\n

University of Leeds chair of construction materials science, Prof Theodore Hanein, added: “The effects of this project can go beyond Ukraine.<\/p>\n

“The technology can be used world-wide; it is very important.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elizabeth BainesYorkshire SERGEY DOLZHENKO\/EPA-EFE\/Shutterstock It is estimated more than 150,000 buildings and structures have been lost since the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-432935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115223750867736902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}