Russia (bbabo.net), - More than a million tons of recyclables were handed over by residents over the past year. This is almost 18 percent more than in 2020. How the city copes with the sorting and recycling of waste, the correspondent found out.
According to the municipal economy complex, the popularity of the program for separate waste collection among the population of Moscow is growing. “The main task that we set at the first stage is to make the process of separate waste collection as convenient as possible. That is why a simple two-container system was chosen,” said Petr Biryukov, Deputy Mayor of the Capital for Housing and Communal Services and Improvement. “The volume of recyclable materials collected over the past year testifies that the program is interesting and useful for Muscovites".
What do Muscovites send for recycling? According to Elena Veshnyakova, deputy general director of the Ecoline Group of Companies (this group of companies is engaged in the removal of waste from the north, center, west and southwest of Moscow), the main content, or 55 percent of the blue recyclable bins, is various plastics. The share of paper is 23 percent of the total volume of recyclables. Another 13.5 percent is metal and tetrapack, the rest is glass, rubber, and so on. The most popular segment in plastics is PET bottles. They account for up to 30 percent of all plastics thrown out by citizens. By the way, new packaging for food and non-food products, polyester and much more are produced from this material. But with the rest of the plastic waste, such as foamed polystyrene substrates, disposable bags and dishes, few processors are ready to work yet. According to experts, the launch of a new polymer processing plant can fill this gap. In the near future, the construction of a plant with a capacity of 60 thousand tons of waste per year will begin in the Moscow Region, this will be a joint venture of EcoLine-Vtorplast. According to Alexander Svidovskiy, General Director of the enterprise, the plant will become the country's first full-cycle complex for processing all types of plastic, which will reduce the amount of "non-liquid" that goes to waste incinerators or landfills.
55 percent of the blue tanks are plastic
“The construction of a new plant for the processing of household plastic will allow the region to cope with the growing volumes of this recyclable material,” says Leonid Sinitsyn, head of the Sobirator project. If we pull up these areas, then the company will receive cars with recyclable materials that do not look like an unassembled mass. This will simplify the task of processors and can help involve new people in the separate waste collection program."
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