The message about the dump of fluorescent lamps in Almetyevskiy district came to the hotline of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan from local mushroom pickers. During the trip, specialists from the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan established that the dumping of environmentally hazardous waste onto the soil was made 5 km from the Ursala microdistrict.