I.Metshin: “This is the case when every citizen of Kazan can and should take care of the environmental safety of our city”

Kazan is the second largest city in Russia after Moscow in terms of accessibility of infrastructure for separate collection of solid waste. Iskander Giniyatullin, deputy head of the Executive Committee, told about this today at the Business Monday at the Executive Committee of Kazan.

In Kazan, separate solid waste collection began in 2018. “Currently, almost 80% of the city's residential buildings are equipped with containers for separate waste collection into recyclable and non-recyclable sections on a dual principle. In two years, 174 modern container sites equipped with trash enclosures for separate waste collection have been built in the city”, - Iskander Giniyatullin reported.

С 2018 года в образовательную программу включены уроки экологического воспитания.

Since 2018, the educational program includes classes in environmental education.

A pilot project on the use of recycling machines has been implemented in 20 schools of the city, said I.Giniyatullin.

The city also implements projects of major global companies for the collection and processing of recyclable materials. “The interactive educational project Zero Waste Lab has started working in the Gorkinsky-Ometyevsky forest, which is becoming an educational ecological cluster. Information boards and bins for separate waste collection are installed for visitors, and street furniture made from recycled plastic is used as an example of efficient use of recyclable materials in the park. It seeks to achieve one goal – to promote a responsible attitude to waste among our citizens”, - I.Giniyatullin reminded.

“This is a big and very difficult job. We study the best world practices and understand that many developed countries have passed and continue to walk this way not even for 10-15-20 years. Therefore, we should not wait for immediate results, but we see results every day, weekly, monthly, and annually. We are grateful to our concerned residents, our main associates, for going this way together”, - said Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan.

The Mayor noted that there are still a minority of residents who consciously recycle, so it is important to continue working, talk about separate waste collection and systematically raise this issue.