Today, within the framework of the sanitary and ecological bimonthly period, Aleksandr Shadrikov, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, made a helicopter flight around the territory of the republic. The Buinskiy, Drozhzhanovskiy, Alekseevskiy, Novosheshminskiy, Aksubaevskiy, Apastovskiy, Tetyushskiy, Verkhneuslonskiy, Chistopolskiy districts were inspected. In total 87 dumps were found. The Minister notes that since the beginning of the sanitary-ecological bimonthly period, 209 places of unauthorized waste disposal have been fixed, most of them during air flights.