NEWS

Reception of citizens on environmental protection and environmental management issues will take place on December 6 from 9.00 to 10.00 am in the Arskiy district of the Republic of Tatarstan (Arsk, Internatsionalnaya str., 41). Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan - Chief State Inspector of the Republic of Tatarstan in the field of Environmental Protection Fayaz Shakirov, Tatar Environmental Inter-district Prosecutor Ilsur Gilmutdinov and Kazan Inter-district Environmental Prosecutor Albert Khabirov will answer residents' questions.

Payment of fines imposed by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as payments for negative impact on the environment, made by enterprises - nature users, are going to improve the environmental situation. All funds received, according to the instructions of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, are used by the Executive Committees of the municipal districts for environmental protection measures. To date, there are about 96 container sites in Leninogorsk, 17 of which have already been converted for selective garbage collection, 20 new litter boxes are installed along the central streets of the town.

Issue of development of infrastructure for collection and disposal of waste chemical power sources in the republic was discussed today at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. Minister Aleksandr Shadrikov, First Deputy Minister Rustem Kamalov and Deputy Head of the Kazan Executive Committee Iskander Giniyatullin took part in the Meeting with representatives of Duracell Russia LLC. As the Head of the environmental department noted, the Ministry had achieved positive results in organizing the separate accumulation, collection, and disposal of spent chemical current sources, and now it is necessary to expand the scope of organizational work.

A vehicle is detained, the perpetrators are identified. Last weekend, the inspectors of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, with the help of photo traps, tracked offenders who polluted the Tarn-Var River. Earlier, the territorial administration of the Ministry received an appeal from the residents of Nurlat, stating that in the coastal zone of the river unknown people are dumping industrial waste. In the course of survey, the fact of discharge of dairy runoffs was confirmed; in addition, the results of analyses showed that the wastewater was toxic and belongs to liquid waste of the 4th hazard class.

"Feedbox for every bird". The campaign under such title was organized in combined type kindergarten No. 22 of Chistopolskiy district. The purpose of the event was to expand children's understanding of the life of wintering birds of their native land. What one can feed the birds in winter and what species of birds especially need feeding, the children studied their location and behavioral characteristics as part of a creative production. A contest of feedboxes was announced in order to develop the cognitive process and further monitoring the wintering birds in the kindergarten.

Parus OOO was found guilty for unauthorized dumping. The decision was made by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan. As part of the sanitary-ecological two-monthly period inspectors of Priikskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan revealed the fact of littering with boards, boxes and ceramic tiles in Aznakaevo town.

Today the children of the “Zdravushka” city rehabilitation center were told about the origin and development of life on the Earth. The environmental awareness-raising event during the decade timed to the International Day of Persons with Disabilities was conducted by specialists from the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan and employees of the Museum of Natural History of Tatarstan of Kazan Kremlin museum-reserve. As part of the lesson, the children learned what the first living organisms were, and were able to personally see the ammonite shells that have survived to our day.

Today, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan held a meeting of the Commission chaired by First Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustem Kamalov, to comply with requirements for official conduct of public civil servants and to resolve conflicts of interest. The meeting summarized the activities of the Commission for 2018 and discussed the work plan for 2019.

In order to reduce environmental harm from dumping of hazardous waste and to promote environmentally safe disposal in Russia, a project has been launched to eliminate illegal dumping of automobile tires. Large spontaneous accumulations of ownerless waste tires will not only be exported, but also recycled at specialized enterprises into crumb rubber, will be used in roofing materials or bituminous plastics, will become a drip irrigation system or other types of products.

It is known that tires, which have served their life, decompose in the ground for more than a hundred years, polluting the soil and groundwater. In Russia, over a million tons of worn tires are emitted annually, only 20–25% of which is recycled safely for the environment. From January 1, 2019, the burial of tires in Russia is officially prohibited.

Unauthorized waste disposal was discovered during a helicopter flight around Lenina street in Bugulma town. Inspectors of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan have instituted an administrative investigation against the Kazan legal entity (plant) engaged in production of cold pressed sunflower oil.

As the inspector Madina Usmanova said: “In the course of main activity of this plant, large volumes of sunflower husk are formed, which are subsequently thrown into the street of the enterprise territory. This waste, interacting with precipitation and the environment, decays, giving off an unpleasant odor. A legal entity does not dispose this waste, but accumulates in this way on a territory of a total area of ​​412.5 square meters”.