More than 5 tons of waste paper was collected in Kazan during the two-day campaign

(KZN.RU, October 10, Alsu Safina). More than 5 tons of waste paper was collected during the ecological campaign, which took place in Kazan on October 5-6 at four sites: on streets Baturin, Dzerzhinsky, Pavlyuhin and Ippodromnaya. Iskander Giniyatullin, the deputy head of the Executive Committee and the chairman of the Housing Committee, said at the Business Monday about the results of the event, where representatives of the City Hall took part along with the residents of the city.

The campaign, whose aim was to encourage people to take care of the environmental issues, draw attention to resource conservation and contribute to the development of recycling, was held in Kazan on the initiative of the Housing Committee in partnership with the “Chistaya Sreda” company. “They are intelligent and creative young men, who raised the question of the recyclable materials collection to a new level”, said I. Metshin.

The Housing Committee collected the most amount of waste paper: more than 1 ton. I. Giniyatullin stressed that such a result is due to the fact that this work is carried out in the unit on a permanent basis. Financial management has handed over nearly 700 kg of waste paper, the “Managing Company of the Privolzhsky district” - 450 kg. The proceeds from the collection of waste paper will be used for charitable purposes.

According to the Mayor of Kazan, the collection of waste paper is a “well-forgotten old”, however, it is necessary to introduce international experience in this sphere. In particular, the practice, when the inhabitants of the cities on the way to work leave waste items in special containers, installed in the underground, is operating in Europe. Mobile collection unit for recycling works. “The wheel has already been invented. It is necessary to study the best practices and to implement it,” said I. Metshin.

“It is necessary that the district administrations will be connected to this work. Think of how to inform the residents to which yard the mobile unit will come”, urged the Mayor. He believes that the work of mobile units to collect waste paper could be an intermediate step in the transition to the selective collection of recyclable materials.