The Mayor of Kazan did not agree on removing the nets for collecting PET-bottles from yards

(KZN.RU, May 14, Ksenia Shvetsova). Today, Sergey Bogatov, the head of the regulative company for garbage collection in Kazan, told about the first results of work at the meeting of the city headquarters on separate waste collection. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, held the meeting in the Executive Committee of the city.

Preparations for the new waste management system began in 2018 thanks to a project that was launched in the Aviastroitelny district. Then it was possible to work out and eliminate all the flaws before the separate collection began throughout the city, reminded S. Bogatov.

Most of the success of the project depends on the citizens and their desire to sort the waste, believes the speaker. “The system is not only about buying garbage trucks, containers, but also about the citizens to separate the garbage at home and put it into right containers”, he said. “But the results are already there. In 2-3 weeks after the installation of containers, 50% of the population begins to separate garbage”.

Today, the waste from all sites with containers for different garbage types is shipped strictly to the waste sorting station. Trucks are tracked by the special system. Due to the increase in the number of raids, the cost of transporting waste from the regional operator increased by 30%.

Iskander Giniyatullin, the deputy head of the Executive Committee, assured that the citizens will not have such an opportunity to confuse with the new container sites that will be organized in the city by the end of summer.

Often citizens themselves break the plastic containers by throwing construction waste in them in addition to the ordinary waste. “Plastic containers deteriorate when bricks, concrete and other construction debris get there”, said S. Bogatov.

Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, forwarded the question to Marat Nuriev, the head of the managing company “Uyutny Dom”. “We ask residents to take out the garbage by special trucks. But since they do not always cooperate, and we should not allow the garbage to lie for a very long time, we take it out on our own and then bill the owners”, said M. Nuriev.

Another remark of the regional operator was about nets for collecting plastic bottles installed in the city. “It is necessary to remove the nets where a separate collection is implemented. They don’t belong to us, we don’t take them out and our incomes are actually decreased”, said S. Bogatov.

Ilsur Metshin did not agree with the need to remove the nets. “We have been teaching people to throw plastic into them for years, and today we cannot just cancel it. I cannot give such an order”, he said.

Iskander Giniyatullin noted that the nets for collecting plastic in the yards will remain. They will remove only those installed on container sites. “The nets were installed by entrepreneurs. More than half of the yards were equipped with them”, he said. “The revenue for the regional operator provides for revenues from the sale of recyclable materials. Since the moment they are placed on the site, they belong to the regional operator. But the nets are installed not only on the grounds, but also in the yards. The municipality believes that it is also necessary to support entrepreneurs who have invested their money in this issue and are engaged in recycling. Therefore, they will remain, but we will not put them on container sites”.

In conclusion, S. Bogatov shared another problem. He noted that there is a problem with the constant overflow of containers in the private sector, as construction waste is brought there. “They even make money on it. Trucks throw away waste, take money from people for garbage collection, and then make up to 10 raids a day”, said S. Bogatov. “The responsibility is minimal, fines are low”.

Timur Alibaev, the head of the Aviastroitelny and Novo-Savinovsky districts, also spoke about this problem. He said that 24 container sites in the district were equipped with video surveillance to detect illegal dumping of construction waste.

“We have to make coordinated decisions. Step by step, we must create conditions that will not allow anyone to break them. Let's take more stringent measures”, concluded the Mayor of Kazan.

Today 47% of the housing stock in the capital of Tatarstan is transferred to a separate waste collection. In total, 878 sites were prepared, this is 50% of their total number in the city.

The UC “PZhKKh” is a regional operator who is responsible for garbage collection in Kazan and another 21 municipalities of the republic.