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Residents of the village of Prolei-Kasha in the Tetyush district joined the campaign “Green Russia”. They cleaned the Volga bank of plastic bottles, glass jars and other household waste left by holidaymakers.
“The Volga bank is a favourite place for residents of the Tetyushsky district.

It has started receipt of applications for participation in the city stage of the All-Russian contest “My Little Homeland: Nature, Culture, Ethnicity”. The organizers of the contest are the Kazan City Education Department and the City Children's Ecological and Biological Center together with environmental organizations. It can be participated by students of educational organizations of Kazan aged 12 to 18 years, showing interest in studying and preserving the natural and cultural heritage of their small homeland.

The system of people’s control “Our Nature” has received the status of a federal state information system. The corresponding resolution has been signed by the Chairman of the Government Dmitry Medvedev. This system was developed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation with the aim of creating an effective mechanism for public control, monitoring urgent problems, studying the people’s opinions, and creating feedback.

On October 2, reception of applications for participation in the city stage of the All-Russian competition of young environmental researchers starts. The contest is held by the Education Department of the city of Kazan, the City Children’s Ecological and Biological Center in collaboration with environmental organizations. Participants can become students of educational institutions in Kazan aged 12 to 18 years.

Illegal quarry was discovered in the Kaibitsky district. In the village of Bolshiye Kaybitsy, on the territory adjacent to the solid waste landfill, excavation was carried out to develop subsoil. During the inspection, inspectors of the Zavolzhsky territorial administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the RT together with the Prosecutor's Office of the Kaibitsky District of the RT found that the extraction of common minerals (carbonate rocks and clay) was carried out without the corresponding license.

Round table, intellectual ecological games, and master classes. ECO volunteers of Crimea and Tatarstan share their experience and knowledge. These days, the activists of the youth environmental movement of the Republic of Tatarstan BUDETCHISTO are visiting the Crimea. The start of ecological cooperation between the two republics was given in spring this year in Kazan.

Specialists of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan regularly monitor the quality of discharges made to water bodies. At the beginning of this year, the inspectors of the Northern Territorial Administration sampled sewage in the Shoshma River. Then, the excess of phosphate and nitrite indices was revealed, as well as the approximation of some chemical indices to the maximum permissible concentrations.

The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan is preparing a project to install containers for the collection of used batteries and their subsequent disposal, which will reduce the entry of hazardous waste into landfills of solid domestic waste.
The project is scheduled to be launched in 2017. It will consist of several stages: the organization of collection, storage, transportation, and disposal of used batteries. The containers will be installed in popular places of Kazan. Now the project is being successfully implemented in Almetyevsk.

On October 7 in Tatarstan the results of the III republican contest “School Eco Patrol” will be summed up. This year among the participants there are kids who scored more than 1000 points. The greatest activity was shown by students of Kazan, Nizhnekamsk, Almetyevsk, Cheremshan, Spassk, and Yutaz districts.

Within the framework of the Year of Ecology, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation plans to create an Association of Local History Museums in the field of environmental education. Relevant proposals were formed at a meeting in the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia. As the head of the department Sergey Donskoy noted, the creation of the Association will promote the popularization of local lore in general, the creation of popular sites for environmental education of people.