D. Kalinkin: “The result will depend on how clearly we explain the waste sorting to people”

D. Kalinkin: “The result will depend on how clearly we explain the waste sorting to people”

<p> (KZN.RU, July 16, Alsu Safina). The start of, a large-scale pilot project for the introduction of a separate collection of garbage in the Aviastroitelny district of Kazan fr om August 1 was announced today at the Business Monday at the City Hall. Denis Kalinkin, the head of the Kazan Executive Committee, noted the importance of informing the residents about the waste sorting. </p> <p> </p> <p> “It's not just a separate object with a couple of containers installed, but a large-scale pilot. The key factor for this project today is informing the residents, especially at first stages”, noted Denis Kalinkin. “The result will depend on how clearly we explain the waste sorting to people. There will always be those who heard it for the first time, it will be difficult. But we must start and expand further”. </p> <p> </p> <p> The pilot project on the introduction of a separate waste collection is to be introduced fr om multi-apartment buildings managed by the OOO “MC Aviastroitelny district”. 428 containers with yellow and gray stickers will be installed at 109 container sites for separate collection of waste. In addition, it is planned to purchase more than 80 eco-boxes for the collection of hazardous waste: batteries, mercury, luminescent energy-saving lamps, and thermometers. Hazardous waste will be exported for processing to specialized enterprises. </p> <p> </p> <p> It is planned to distribute leaflets, post ads, posters, and banners to inform residents of the district. Iskander Giniyatullin, the deputy head of the Executive Committee, said that information labels will be placed on the containers with a symbolic image of the stored waste with inscriptions in Russian and Tatar. Information boards about the order of waste collection will be posted on stands in the building entrances near the container sites. </p> <p> </p> <p> Thus, residents of the Aviastroitelny district will be able to divide the waste into three types of containers: eco-boxes for hazardous waste, containers with yellow and gray stickers. Containers with a yellow sticker are designed for dry clean waste that can be recycled. These are newspapers, notebooks, writing paper, cardboard, glass jars, bottles, broken glass, plastic bottles from milk and dairy products, water, beer, juices, and other liquids, canisters, buckets, cans, plastic bags, metal cans for drinks and canned food, lids, aerosol cans, and other metal. </p> <p> </p> <p> Waste from containers with gray stickers will be sent to the landfills. Residents of the city will be able to store food waste, magazines, advertising booklets, leaflets, posters from glossy paper, foam plastic trays from finished products, coffee cups for takeaway, tetra-packs, crispy packages, crisp transparent boxes from cakes, pastries, salads, clothes, textiles, shoes, wet rags, soaked cardboard and paper, and other wet waste. </p> <p> </p> <p> Iskander Giniyatullin explained why it is necessary to separate dry and wet waste. “The mixing of food with waste paper in one container turns it into a mash, suitable only for ejection into a landfill. The same happens if a wet cloth gets to a dry paper, for example”, he said. “Therefore, we made such a decision”. It is assumed that in the future, the number of fractions and reservoirs for separate collection will increase. “At the first stage, we are ready to lim it ourselves to this. The experience of operation should show the readiness of the population to separate waste and the possibility of expanding the range of separate collection”, said I. Giniyatullin. </p> <p> </p> <p> It is planned to instill a new culture of the waste collection since the school. Thus, the Kazan Department of Education together with the Committee for Housing and Communal Services has developed a program for the environmental education of students. By the beginning of the school year, urns and containers for the collection of plastic and waste paper will be purchased for schools. </p> <p> </p> <p> Iskander Giniyatullin illustrated the benefits of waste sorting and processing by a simple example of recycling paper. “Last year, 2.8 thousand tons of waste paper were collected in Kazan. Nearly 50 thousand trees are used for the production of this quantity of paper. Approximately such quantity of trees grows today in the 15 largest parks of Kazan”, he noted. “Just 1% of the waste sorting keeps 15 parks, wh ere trees will grow for several decades. And if we manage to collect 28 thousand tons of waste paper, this would be 150 parks. And still, it would be only 10% of waste”. </p> <p> </p> <p> The deputy head of the Executive Committee urged the heads of the structural units of the Executive Committee to start introducing separate waste collection in their units and enterprises. “The collection of waste paper and plastic, which was organized in the committee two years ago, made it possible to exclude charges for the export of waste from the expenditure side of the institution”, said Iskander Giniyatullin. </p>

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