Clean planet: how Russia solves the problem of garbage

The problem of recycling garbage and household waste is becoming more and more serious. Accumulating in landfills, garbage continues to have a detrimental effect on the environment. Gradually, the waste begins to decompose, releasing toxic substances and greenhouse gases.

Since 2019, Russia has been implementing a "garbage" reform. According to the plan, by 2030, 100% of municipal solid waste (MSW) should be sorted and 50% recycled.

The "garbage" reform began in 2019. In 2023, utilities had to sort 36% of garbage, but as a result, by the end of the year 52.7% had been sorted, and almost 13% had been disposed of.

Moscow and the Moscow Region, Tula and Nizhny Novgorod regions, Stavropol Territory and Udmurtia are in the first place in creating an integrated system for the treatment of (MSW).
An innovative waste-to-energy recycling project will start in the Moscow region in 2024! The first plant will be opened in Voskresensk in April-May, and in the second half of the year 4 more will be launched.

The company in Voskresenka is equipped with unique Russian equipment – from a turbine to filters for capturing solid particles after waste incineration. The power generation complex will become one of the most modern in the world. The waste will be delivered to the plant after mandatory sorting. Only those that cannot be recycled are subject to disposal.

In 2025, such a plant is planned to open in Kazan, and in the future at least 25 more similar enterprises may be created in Russia.

The fight against landfills and garbage is also underway within the framework of the federal Clean Country project. In 2024, it is planned to eliminate 191 unauthorized landfills within the boundaries of cities and neutralize 88 of the most dangerous objects of accumulated environmental damage to the environment.

Currently, within the framework of the project, measures are being taken to eliminate the Krasny Bor industrial toxic waste landfill, and facilities in the city of Usolye-Sibirskoye, Irkutsk region, contaminated as a result of chemical production, are being brought into safe condition. In the Moscow region, 27 landfills with a total area of 433 hectares are being eliminated.

And of course, let's not forget that sorting garbage to facilitate its recycling and disposal, and reasonable conscious consumption is a feasible contribution of each of us to maintaining the purity of our planet.