More landfills and receipts! Garbage reform in a figurative sense?
In Russia, at least approximately 7% of household waste is recycled and disposed of. In Europe, this figure reaches 80%. And in European countries we are talking about fairly deep processing - recycled and food waste, and plastic, and waste paper, and glass. We have nothing to brag about yet: in the absolute majority of cases, the garbage is either burned or goes to burial grounds at special landfills.
At his press conference, Vladimir Putin said that Russia needs to build at least two hundred incinerators before 2024. According to him, they didn’t deal with recycling at all, since the Soviet times it was simply dumped into pits.
Earlier, on December 6, during his interview on summing up the year, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev also noted the need to more effectively address the problem of household and industrial waste. In particular, he spoke of the need to adopt an appropriate program, which will make it possible to drastically (at times) increase the proportion of recycled solid waste, as well as the need to systematically combat illegal dumping sites.
All this, of course, is very good. Without the slightest irony, I think that turning my country into one big dump is a crime. Ordinary Russians think about the same thing: according to a survey conducted by the NAFI analytical center, more than half of the inhabitants of Russia consider the environmental conditions in their places of residence to be unfavorable. And it is very good that the main state officials paid attention to this problem. But, unfortunately, already now it can be noted that the matter is moving somehow not very quickly and not always in coordination.
Already at Putin’s press conference, there is some inconsistency in the information that is on the tables of the president and the prime minister. Medvedev in his interview spoke about the construction program for 2024, the 210 complex for the processing and disposal of solid waste. Perhaps it was this program that Putin had in mind. But he already called these complexes "waste incineration plants". It would seem just a trifle and inconsistency. But we all know very well what country we live in, and we understand that it is much easier for the officials in charge of the program to simplify their task and, instead of a complex cycle of sorting and recycling, to fix their waste. Whose words will be decisive for them?
Meanwhile, waste recycling can really become a whole sector of the economy. Plastics, metals, ceramics, building materials, glass, paper - and this is not the whole list of what can be obtained from waste. Probably, food waste may also be in demand: they, of course, cannot be returned to the table for people, but as food for pigs, poultry, or as fertilizer, they may well be in demand.
Instead, I repeat, we can get two hundred garbage cans, into which all household waste will be dumped. Which, of course, is still better than nothing, but still somehow does not pull on a qualified decision.
The initiative to create a unified waste treatment operator in Russia is also alarming. Alas, our passion for centralizing everything and everyone is often just a cover for the desire to build a private dam on the next financial flow. In words, of course, everything sounds great - this operator will lend business to the business, and will distribute the environmental fee “correctly” and “effectively”, and will shift the capital costs to its shoulders. Moreover, it is likely that it will be effective to control the regions in the sphere of controlling the disposal and recycling of household waste.
Yeah, schaz ... Swam, we know. The next RosKomLondonReal Estate or Rosspetsyakhtstroy will come out with a probability of 99%, but for all other options, only the percentile remains.
As part of the ongoing “garbage reform” in the country (the name is not official, but real, many Russian reforms would be great!) Already from 1 in January 2019, the country should switch to a new waste management system. Accordingly, even in the summer in the regions they had to choose local operators and approve tariffs for the population. However, the process did not go as smoothly as the initiators would like it to, and, to put it mildly, it’s premature to speak about the full readiness of the regions.
One of the peculiarities of this reform is that since 1 in January of 2019, the dumping of glass, metal, and plastic has been prohibited at the sites. At first glance, this is good, as it will stimulate the sorting and recycling of garbage. But in fact, this can be a big problem, because in most cases it is simply nowhere to process sorted materials, and glass, plastic, metal will have to be simply stored in some kind of “temporary storage place”. In fact, we will be realistic, we will get some more landfills: licensed companies will not accept unsorted garbage for fear of sanctions, and they will take him to the suburbs, to secluded ravines and ravines with even greater pleasure.
Our officials, we must pay tribute to them, understand the urgency of the problem, so by 1 next January, the municipalities were instructed to create maps of additional solid waste disposal sites. That is, the classic "for which they fought, and ran into it" manifested itself in all its senseless beauty.
In fact, we cannot allow our officials to fail this reform as well. In the country, even according to official data there are 22 thousand illegal dumps. And the situation is only getting worse: we do produce more and more waste, and the industry and industry are not far behind. Even comparatively small cities have a risk of turning suburbs into a dump, what can we say about megacities. But such examples show how questionable are our paper successes in this field.
Of course, it is more profitable for a business to reduce everything to the appearance of another payment receipt. True, even now the population pays several times for the sorting and disposal of garbage: we pay for the packaging of goods, the cost of which already includes an environmental fee; municipalities spend our money on sorting garbage (although they rarely do it); no one has also canceled payments for the removal and disposal of MSW. Perhaps, our guardians will come up with some other kind of payment, put their children “on stream”, and that’s all, to their joy, and it will end.
But I would like the interests of people, not business, to prevail this time. So, one optimistic speech at a press conference will not be enough. We still have to fight ...
But we need to fight, because no one is going to fight for us.
At his press conference, Vladimir Putin said that Russia needs to build at least two hundred incinerators before 2024. According to him, they didn’t deal with recycling at all, since the Soviet times it was simply dumped into pits.
Firstly, it is necessary to eliminate illegal landfills, secondly, to build a whole industry for recycling. It is necessary to use international experience in this area in its best options.
Earlier, on December 6, during his interview on summing up the year, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev also noted the need to more effectively address the problem of household and industrial waste. In particular, he spoke of the need to adopt an appropriate program, which will make it possible to drastically (at times) increase the proportion of recycled solid waste, as well as the need to systematically combat illegal dumping sites.
Landfills that have become the talk of the town is a topic that has become very disturbing to our people, which concerns not only forest regions, but also in general. Of course, we will now finalize this program and begin to implement it.
All this, of course, is very good. Without the slightest irony, I think that turning my country into one big dump is a crime. Ordinary Russians think about the same thing: according to a survey conducted by the NAFI analytical center, more than half of the inhabitants of Russia consider the environmental conditions in their places of residence to be unfavorable. And it is very good that the main state officials paid attention to this problem. But, unfortunately, already now it can be noted that the matter is moving somehow not very quickly and not always in coordination.
Already at Putin’s press conference, there is some inconsistency in the information that is on the tables of the president and the prime minister. Medvedev in his interview spoke about the construction program for 2024, the 210 complex for the processing and disposal of solid waste. Perhaps it was this program that Putin had in mind. But he already called these complexes "waste incineration plants". It would seem just a trifle and inconsistency. But we all know very well what country we live in, and we understand that it is much easier for the officials in charge of the program to simplify their task and, instead of a complex cycle of sorting and recycling, to fix their waste. Whose words will be decisive for them?
Meanwhile, waste recycling can really become a whole sector of the economy. Plastics, metals, ceramics, building materials, glass, paper - and this is not the whole list of what can be obtained from waste. Probably, food waste may also be in demand: they, of course, cannot be returned to the table for people, but as food for pigs, poultry, or as fertilizer, they may well be in demand.
Instead, I repeat, we can get two hundred garbage cans, into which all household waste will be dumped. Which, of course, is still better than nothing, but still somehow does not pull on a qualified decision.
The initiative to create a unified waste treatment operator in Russia is also alarming. Alas, our passion for centralizing everything and everyone is often just a cover for the desire to build a private dam on the next financial flow. In words, of course, everything sounds great - this operator will lend business to the business, and will distribute the environmental fee “correctly” and “effectively”, and will shift the capital costs to its shoulders. Moreover, it is likely that it will be effective to control the regions in the sphere of controlling the disposal and recycling of household waste.
Yeah, schaz ... Swam, we know. The next RosKomLondonReal Estate or Rosspetsyakhtstroy will come out with a probability of 99%, but for all other options, only the percentile remains.
As part of the ongoing “garbage reform” in the country (the name is not official, but real, many Russian reforms would be great!) Already from 1 in January 2019, the country should switch to a new waste management system. Accordingly, even in the summer in the regions they had to choose local operators and approve tariffs for the population. However, the process did not go as smoothly as the initiators would like it to, and, to put it mildly, it’s premature to speak about the full readiness of the regions.
As of 9 in August, 79 reg-operators have been selected in 203 subjects of the Russian Federation. Competition procedures have not yet started only in Moscow and the Saratov region. The 15 regions in which the 37 operators operate are completely transferred to the new system. Selected, but did not start working 166 operators in the 71 subject. Back in the 9 subjects, contests have been announced.
One of the peculiarities of this reform is that since 1 in January of 2019, the dumping of glass, metal, and plastic has been prohibited at the sites. At first glance, this is good, as it will stimulate the sorting and recycling of garbage. But in fact, this can be a big problem, because in most cases it is simply nowhere to process sorted materials, and glass, plastic, metal will have to be simply stored in some kind of “temporary storage place”. In fact, we will be realistic, we will get some more landfills: licensed companies will not accept unsorted garbage for fear of sanctions, and they will take him to the suburbs, to secluded ravines and ravines with even greater pleasure.
Our officials, we must pay tribute to them, understand the urgency of the problem, so by 1 next January, the municipalities were instructed to create maps of additional solid waste disposal sites. That is, the classic "for which they fought, and ran into it" manifested itself in all its senseless beauty.
In fact, we cannot allow our officials to fail this reform as well. In the country, even according to official data there are 22 thousand illegal dumps. And the situation is only getting worse: we do produce more and more waste, and the industry and industry are not far behind. Even comparatively small cities have a risk of turning suburbs into a dump, what can we say about megacities. But such examples show how questionable are our paper successes in this field.
Of course, it is more profitable for a business to reduce everything to the appearance of another payment receipt. True, even now the population pays several times for the sorting and disposal of garbage: we pay for the packaging of goods, the cost of which already includes an environmental fee; municipalities spend our money on sorting garbage (although they rarely do it); no one has also canceled payments for the removal and disposal of MSW. Perhaps, our guardians will come up with some other kind of payment, put their children “on stream”, and that’s all, to their joy, and it will end.
But I would like the interests of people, not business, to prevail this time. So, one optimistic speech at a press conference will not be enough. We still have to fight ...
But we need to fight, because no one is going to fight for us.
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