YADROVO LANDFILL SITE WAS CLOSED IN MOSCOW REGION

The landfill site Yadrovo near Volokolamsk, which caused massive protests by local residents, was closed ahead of schedule by the decision of the Moscow Region authorities. Information about this, announced by the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, was published in one of Telegram channels. The landfill had worked for almost half a century and, as the experts say, could have been replenished with another million tons of garbage.

According to Vorobyov, the elimination of the landfill site was the result of the implementation of a project for the reclamation of landfills and replacing them with technological enterprises, engaged in waste processing. Earlier, the governor publicly promised that all the city dumps on the territory of the Moscow region would be closed by 2021.

According to the head of the region, at the moment, the work of 12 modern enterprises engaged in waste processing has already been organized in compliance with current environmental standards.

Considering that after the introduction of the practice of separate waste collection, the amount of household waste in the Moscow region has decreased by 1.5 million tons and the plan of the authorities is to start purchasing waste from neighboring regions in the future. This idea was voiced a year ago by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Region Yevgeny Khromushin.

The representatives of supervisory agencies note that the closure of the landfill site near Volokolamsk is only the first stage of a long process that will have to be carried out in the region to complete the reclamation of facilities. According to the head of the Federal Service for Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare Svetlana Radionova, the department will monitor this and carry out the necessary checks. The latest check, organized by the department in August 2020, identified 51 cases of violation of environmental legislation.

Waste was dumped outside landfill sites and part of the garbage was buried in the water protection zone.

We should recall that the Yadrovo landfill site got into the scandalous agenda back in March 2018. There was a release of gases in the landfill site, which led to deterioration in the health of fifty children living nearby. Six of them were taken to the hospital, and thousands of residents rallied, demanding the elimination of the site. The regional administration's claim to the capital's commercial court, filed to close the landfill three months later, was rejected.