The disruption of public services such as garbage collection and processing due to the conflict leads to accumulation in streets, informal dumps and polluting practices such as a waste burning causing air pollution and methane plumes while leachate affects soil and water sources 2/x

This leads to exposure of civilians to toxic fumes, spread of (micro)plastics that pose additional healht risks, while increase of wastepicks, many of them children, further increase acute health problems and long-term exposure risks through other pathways 3/x

To understand the scale of these reverberating environmental impacts of the war, we used #remotesensing to map sites, with both manual checking very hight resolution imagery and machine-learning methods to identify in total over 470 sites in 2024, an increaes of 250 with 2014 4/x

To reverse these impacts, we suggests the following solutions: strengthen local governance & institutional capacity, secure sustainable financing, boost waste collection & treatment infrastructure, use geospatial data + community engagement for evidence-based planning. 5/x