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A message about regular smoke from one of the industrial enterprises in the area of ​​the base of the building industry of the city was received by the Prikamskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan from local residents. When visiting the site, state inspectors found violations of operation of the wood-fired heating furnace and metalworking machines for production of auto-ladders. “According to the method of calculating emissions of harmful (polluting) substances, this equipment is a source of soot, nitrous oxide, and sulfur dioxide emissions into the atmospheric air”, said environmentalists.

Containers were removed, but the habit of throwing away remained. In Krasnyi Klyuch settlement of Nizhnekamskiy district, an unauthorized dump of 50 m2 was discovered by inspectors of the Zakamskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. Ecologists managed to fix those responsible for formation of bulk with the help of photo and video traps. Devices fixed that at least five car owners repeatedly carried out landfilling.

Fact of illegal mining is discovered by inspectors of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration in Almetyevskiy district. The license for geological study of the Novotroitskoye site was issued to a Kazan enterprise. However, during the raids, state inspectors repeatedly recorded facts of limestone mining in this area. “In different time intervals, we found working excavators and loaders, abandoned equipment and traces of exploitation. We also managed to trace the paths of further implementation of common mineral resources. The preliminary damage caused to the subsoil amounted to about 8 million rubles”, said environmentalists.

How to join the ranks of environmental volunteers? Today the guests of  “Clean Tatarstan" program are Head of the State Inspectorate for Environmental Supervision of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Aleksei Polyushkov, and Public Inspector of Environmental Protection, Alina Frolova.

A contest-exhibition of children's creativity “The Second Life of Packaging - 2018” was announced for pupils of 1-11th grades of the city of Kazan. From October 22 to November 2, 2018 works reflecting natural objects: animals or plants made of waste material are accepted.

City Children's Ecological and Biological Center announces the city stage of the All-Russian competition of young environmental researchers. Young people aged 12 to 18 are invited to participate.

Yard camps, workshops, quest games, sanitary clean-ups, environmental lessons - and this is still an incomplete list of activities carried out by eco-volunteers in 45 municipal formations of the republic. The results of the Year of Volunteer were summed up today by the activists of the youth ecological movement “Will be clean!”. “The youth, who are here today, do a lot, are an example for all of us, including for the adult generation. By your example, you infect others - show how to treat the environment, ecology. We say words of gratitude to everyone, and this is more than 7.5 thousand members of the ecological movement “Will be clean!”, - the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Aleksandr Shadrikov, greeted the participants of the festival.

A qualifying stage of the city festival of scenic creativity on environmental topics is taking place till November 30. Children from 6 to 18 years old are invited to participate, both creative teams and solo performers.

One may apply for participation in the qualifying stage, either in person or in absentia.

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.

Message about unauthorized dumping in the garage cooperative of Almetyevsk town, was received by environmentalists through the School Eco-Patrol mobile application. When the specialists of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatartsna left to the site, the information was confirmed. “30% of the cooperative’s area was littered”.