I.Giniyatullin on separate waste collection: “Only infrastructure development is not enough, educational work is also needed”

The basic principles of recycling are being conveyed to Kazan residents.

Construction and equipment of separate waste collection sites continues in Kazan, almost all social facilities in the city are equipped with containers for collecting various types of waste. However, along with the development of infrastructure, educational work with the population requires special attention. This was stated by Deputy Head of the Executive Committee Iskander Giniyatullin at the opening of the exhibition “Kazan – a no waste city” in the CUBE container center of the Gorkinsko-Ometievsky forest.

Special attention was paid to waste management issues in Kazan for several years, the capital of Tatarstan became one of the first cities in Russia to implement a large-scale project on separate waste collection (SWC), noted I.Giniyatullin.

"The basic principles of waste management, which are prescribed in the Clean country federal program, were implemented in our city in 2008, the entire waste management infrastructure was created from scratch – from containers to waste sorting and modern landfills”, - said I.Giniyatullin.

Conditions for separate solid waste collection are created not only in the yards of Kazan, but also at the social facilities. “As usual, we started this work with ourselves. All facilities of the Executive Committee, as well as kindergartens and schools are equipped with containers for separate waste collection, collection of used batteries and light bulbs,”- said the Deputy Head of the Executive Committee.

However, the work on the separate waste collection is not limited to improving the infrastructure, said I.Giniyatullin. “We do not have a goal to make recycling collection points out of schools. And we understand that it is impossible to achieve results only by creating infrastructure, so we need to pay great attention to educational work”, - he said.

Part of the work to educate the population will be an exhibition opened at the CUBE container center, all the exhibits of which are made of recyclable materials, says I. Giniyatullin. Here, citizens will have an opportunity to see the stages of recycling, which show the entire cycle of handling sorted waste. At the exhibition, you it is possible to touch the pellets that are obtained from plastic during processing, and goods made from them – backpacks, apparel, new packaging and more.

After viewing the exhibition, visitors can play an eco – game on touch screens to embed their knowledge and find out what kind of garbage is appropriate for recycling today.

The exhibition was created as part of the Zero Waste Park project, which was developed by Coca-Cola together with the Directorate of parks and squares within the framework of cooperation with Tatarstan.

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The exhibition of goods made of recyclable materials opened at the Gorkinsko-Ometievsky forest