More than 700 million trees are needed for annual consumption of office paper. Every year, each office employee produces 160 kilograms of paper waste, and 45% of all papers are thrown away within 24 hours after printing. In order to preserve the environment and inform the public about the rational ways of paper handling, the “Paperless Day” campaign is held all over the world. Its organizers urge people to do as much as they can in their everyday life and at work without paper industry products.
Aquatic biological resources of the Kama river have been replenished today with more than 6,600 carp juveniles. The action of stocking the river took place in Krasnyi Klyuch village of Nizhnekamskiy district. The Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Aleksandr Shadrikov, the Mayor of Nizhnekamsk, Aidar Metshin, heads of the environmental protection structures of the republic took part in the action. The event was initiated by TANECO Joint-Stock Company as part of the implementation of the Federal Long-Term Program for Improvement of the Volga River and its tributaries.
A seminar was held in the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan in order to increase the level of anti-corruption knowledge of civil servants. During the meeting the following issues were considered:
- provision of information on income, expenses, property and property obligations;
“The thickness of the largest thunderstorm clouds reaches 16 km. This is almost twice the height of Everest, the highest mountain on Earth, and lightning in just 1 second can cover a distance of 140,000 km”, specialists from the Zavolzhskiy Territorial Administration of the Republic of Tatarstan Ministry of Ecology began their story about precipitation. They conducted an eco-lesson “On Rainfall” for children of “Romashka” kindergarten in Buinsk town.
"Kovalevskoe Lake is being backfilled!". Messages from several residents of the Laishevskiy district came to the hotline and the People’s Control system. Ecologists promptly moved to the site for inspection.
“The dumping of the water area was confirmed. In addition, the demolition of greenery, as well as the fact of damage to land on the area of 725 sq. m was recorded. At the time of the inspection, no excavation work was carried out, the equipment was missing”, said Almaz Ismagilov, Deputy Head of the Central Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Not with flowers, but with garbage welcomes Chuvashskaya Maina village in Alekseevskiy district. The complaint from caring citizens came through "People's control" system. The illegal fact of waste storage on Tomskaya street was confirmed by inspectors of the Volga-Kama Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan on the site. Household waste of 30 cubic meters littered a total area of 110 sq.m.
The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan continues to accept applications for participation in the republican competition "ECOleader". The most environmentally friendly enterprises, educational institutions - whose task is to teach to take care of nature, social activists who are not indifferent to environmental problems, and, of course, journalists who, during the year, became real assistants to inspectors of the Ministry of Ecology of Tatarstan, are invited to participate.
The competition of ecological drawings "From a clean sheet!" has been announced for pupils of 1 -11th grades. From October 10 to November 10, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan accepts works made with colored pencils, paints, felt-tip pens (performance technique for the choice of the author) of A3 / A4 format. In the lower right corner on the face of the picture, you must specify the name of the author, grade, name of the educational organization, name of the work. On the back side indicate contact phone number and email address.
Works are accepted at the address Kazan, Pavlyukhina str., 75, office 108
Creation of handicrafts from waste material, phenological observations, good fairs and environmental contests. All this awaits pupils of the Arskiy primary secondary school No. 3 - kindergarten in the new academic year. Since this autumn, the project "Environmental GTO" is being implemented there. Specialists of the Northern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan took part in the solemn parade of dedication of pupils and children of the elder group of the kindergarten to the ranks of young environmentalists.
Since the beginning of the year, the Republican Public Reception Office of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan received 8,252 appeals. Most of them – 3,923 - through the School Eco-patrol mobile application. Ecologists reviewed 1,192 messages through the “People’s control” system, 1,150 notifications via WhatsApp, Telegram, Eco.signal communication channels, “Hotline”. 1,987 appeals were received at personal receptions of citizens and through the reception of the Ministry.