Tatarstan is among leaders in active participation in campaign “interactive map of landfills”

Tatarstan, Samara Region, and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area. Three regions were the most active participants in campaign “interactive map of landfills”. The essence of the campaign was that information about landfills and garbage dumps had to be reported to the dedicated website. Volunteers of public organizations, and just not indifferent people responded to the call. Following the people’ messages, state inspectors for nature protection made inspections. Most of the violations were eliminated.
“From the beginning of the year, about 100 thousand citizens participated in the clean-ups and, probably, if we tried to register this result, for example, in the Guinness Book of Records, then surely such a result would have entered since there are no analogues to such a project,” said the coordinator of the General Cleaning project Dmitry Mironov. “In general, the use of information technologies in the fight against unauthorized landfills was not new for Tatarstan,” said Farid Abdulganiev, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of RT. – GIS “People's control” is actively used in the republic, for schoolchildren the mobile application “School Eco Patrol” has been developed and is actively used. All information about landfills is recorded in a single Environmental Map of the Republic of Tatarstan.” The work in this direction will be continued, the Minister stressed.
According to the project organizers, the Interactive Map of Landfills will be continued after the end of the Year of Ecology. The activists plan to develop a single Internet resource, where people of Russia could complain about pollution of lakes, rivers, parks, and forests.

Press Service of the MENR RT