On 15 December, during a meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects, Russian President Vladimir Putin shared the country’s progress in implementing the National Project «Ecology».
Under the «Clean Country» state programme of the National Project «Ecology», 88 of the most hazardous sites of accumulated environmental damage are to be eliminated in Russia by the end of 2024. «Sixty such sites have already been closed. Another six will be eliminated by the end of 2021,» Vladimir Putin said. The President also reported that 30 illegal dumps located on the outskirts of cities have already been closed and reclaimed, while another 12 waste disposal sites will be eliminated by the end of December.
The reform of municipal solid waste management, supported by the National Project «Ecology», began in 2019. Its main objectives are to establish separate waste collection, organise waste recycling, address the problem of illegal dumps and significantly reduce the volume of waste sent to disposal sites.
Based on materials from «Interfax».