In view of constant rise in prices for traditional fuel (natural gas, diesel fuel, electricity), minimizing energy costs is becoming an increasingly progressive trend. So, sunflower seed husks and wood dust can serve as a basic raw material for reception of solid fuel (briquettes). But there are neither sunflower seed husks nor wood dust at NIBULON's production branches. So we decided to replace them with grain waste of III category, which is formed as a result of cleaning and drying of grain, especially sunflower seeds, which previously created many additional problems associated with recycling at repositories. By calorific value, such wood waste is a good raw material for processing into solid fuel (briquettes), which can be used as fuel in solid fuel boilers.Particular attention was paid to the development of the hardware design of the technological briquetting process. To date, Ukraine has little experience in briquetting. When appealing to research organizations and universities in Odessa, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Poltava and Vinnytsia, negative feedback was received about the possibility of processing waste of this quality; they suggested that it would not be possible to obtain a briquette of the required quality due to the high content of oils in raw materials coming for processing. Therefore, carefully analyzing the process, initial oil expression after a short heat treatment in the dryer was suggested. The dryers will also work on this waste.Taking into account the qualitative indices of waste, the company's specialists selected the equipment for briquetting and the processing technology. The equipment manufactured by Zerma-Ukraina Ltd. showed the best result. This equipment is assembled in a production line, including a waste grinder (for grinding waste into an indiscrete mass), a dryer with a heat generator (for separating moisture from waste), an oil press (for separating industrial oil from waste), an extruder (for briquetting of waste and obtaining a solid fuel).The first line for the briquetting of grain wastes of III category from the purification of oilseeds for the production of fuel briquettes was installed at the end of last year at ¨Kolosivs´kyy elevator¨ Ltd., a branch of NIBULON Group.Various branches that are heated with the help of solid fuel boilers (“Novoodes'ka” branch, “Prybuzhanivs'ka” branch, “Bashtans'ka” branch, “Kamyanets'-Podil's'ka” branch) already use briquettes of own production as fuel. To this end, the company is implementing a program for switching from traditional fuel for boilers (gas, diesel fuel) to solid fuel, within which modern solid fuel boilers have been installed at “Novoodes'ka” branch (3 units) with total capacity of 300 kW, “Prybuzhanivs'ka” branch (1 unit) with capacity of 100 kW, and at “Teteriv” branch with total capacity of 200 kW for heating the administrative and production premises of the branches. These boilers are capable of running on various types of alternative fuel (firewood, pellets, briquettes), which are much cheaper than gas.Our specialists also consider the possibility of installing similar briquetting machines or other equipment at one of the company's branches in Vinnytsia region in order to reduce transportation costs for waste transportation from the branches located in Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, and Zhytomyr regions.In total, about 50 tons of waste has been processed, resulting in receipt of 40 tons of briquettes and 477 kg of vegetable industrial oil. 24 tons of briquettes for combustion in solid-fuel boilers have been transferred to the company’s branches. As a result, 15,257 m3 of gas and 12,262 l of diesel fuel are saved. It is equal to UAH 429,770. It is planned to process about 600 tons of oilseed waste at ¨Kolosivs´kyy elevator¨ Ltd. in 2017/18 MY.Oilseed waste processing into briquettes and their use as fuel to generate energy (heating and hot water production) not only reduces the dependence of the company on traditional fuels, but also has a positive impact on the environment. The main constituent of these wastes are weed seeds, in particular ragweed. Processing them into fuel briquettes solves the problem of quarantine weeds utilization. This contributes to decrease in the pollution of fields and the amount of waste at urban and rural landfills where this waste was buried. The company pays utility companies for such services, and in the absence of such companies it makes payments to the state budget for placing waste.NIBULON is not going to be satisfied with what has already been achieved. The company has already started to organize the processing of waste oils (hydraulic, transmission, gear, motor, crankcase, compressor oil) and oil residues from stripping of storage tanks (furnace, diesel) and oil received from production activities.Waste oil is classified as hazardous waste, which causes the search for environmentally friendly ways for recycling. Within the framework of the implementation of the environmental and energy-saving approach, a firebox was installed at NIBULON's transport department, where two state-of-the-art CLEAN BURN oil-fired boilers with a capacity of 75 kW each (the USA) are installed; they meet the norms and requirements of the world and Ukrainian legislation. Liquid oil waste serves as a fuel for such boilers. The use of liquid oil waste as a fuel for energy production (heating, hot water production) will not only save energy, but also reduce the burden on the environment by reducing the amount of hazardous waste.The amount of liquid oil waste that is planned to be burned in boilers at the transport department is 23 tons/year. Waste recycling activities are licensed. Now the specialists are working to obtain a license for handling hazardous waste issued by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine.The potential of waste recycling is not exhausted. The introduction of energy-saving technologies requires our branches to treat waste as raw materials more consciously and feel responsibility for their storage. This is only the beginning of a long way as the waste recycling industry is not developed in Ukraine yet. Unfortunately, the state doesn’t create any incentives or preferences for the companies introducing environmentally friendly European technologies for their own waste recycling. Meanwhile, this is a very costly business that requires significant funds and labour efforts for its implementation.