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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”.

Extraction of sand and gravel outside the licensed area was recorded by inspectors of the Volga-Kama Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan on the Kama River. Information and navigation system "Glonass" established that from August 27 to 28, the Donskoy-193 dredger produced subsoil development outside the allotted area, thus violating conditions stipulated by the license issued.

In 2018, the Republican Public Environmental Reception received 10,351 messages. Today the most active assistants of environmentalists are schoolchildren. 54% of the total number of messages came from them through the School Eco-patrol mobile application.

If you take any battery and carefully examine it, you will see a drawing of a crossed out container on it. We are so informed about the prohibition to throw this item into a regular trash can. After all, as scientists say, each battery decomposes 100 years and can poison 20 square meters of soil. The sources of current that we constantly use in everyday life contain the most dangerous heavy metals (cadmium, zinc, manganese, potassium, etc.).

Issues of monitoring of atmospheric air protection, elimination of sludge pits, technological support of educational process in eco-classes were discussed today at the reception of citizens in Urussu town settlement of Yutazinskiy district. Tatar Environmental Inter-district Prosecutor, Ilsur Gilmutdinov, and the Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Chief State Inspector of Tatarstan in the field of Environmental Protection, Fayaz Shakirov, held a meeting with the residents.

Unauthorized waste disposal was discovered during a helicopter flight around the Neftyanikov 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 initiated an administrative investigation in relation to an individual entrepreneur engaged in the sale and manufacture of plastic products for packing goods, disposable tableware.