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Fellow workers of the specialized inspection for analytical control of the Trans-Kama Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan held a practical training for the students of the ecological college. The students were told about the activity of the department of the analysis of industrial emissions into the air and the sector of the analysis of water, air and soil.

        The Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation started to use the system of Earth remote sensing (ERS) from the space. The territory of Far East was chosen for the first space survey. According to the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Russian Federation Sergey Donskoy, methodology of remote sensing has a lot of advantages as compared to traditional scheduled inspections due to its objectivity and continuity.

Today, we are celebrating the World Day of Recycling. The event is mainly aimed at attraction of attention of state authorities, public and industrial structures to the problem of resource limitation, decrease in the cost of end products at the expense of the use of cheaper raw materials, and prevention of environment pollution.

Exhibition-installation “Metropolis” of an artist Vladimir Seleznev (Yekaterinburg) is held at the center “Hermitage Kazan”. Installation is a composition made of consumption waste, namely plastic and glass bottles, cardboard boxes and plastic package. In the daylight the composition looks like a pile of rubbish, but when the lights are out, when projectors illuminate the elements of installation covered with phosphorescent compound, we see the picture of illuminated city. Two lighting regimes demonstrate the contrast of what is real and what is delusive.