How residents accustom themselves to separate garbage collection
While street containers for separate waste collection say that everything is not moving very fast.
Separate garbage collection in Voronezh may well become a reality. According to Greenpeace, there are conditions for citizens to share garbage in our city. And over the past year, they have improved. From 60 places in the Greenpeace ranking, Voronezh has risen by 23 - from more than a hundred cities. The correspondent "Vesti-Voronezh" found out whether this system works and what is needed for the city to become cleaner.
Why do we need to separate the garbage - in Voronezh they began to learn this from childhood. In urban schools, plastic collection containers have appeared, and volunteers turn class watches into lessons in environmental education.
- How much decomposed glass, you know? A thousand years. That glass, which we had the very, very first, is still, - tell the children in the classroom.
Special bins for plastic began to appear in the yards at the garbage sites. Several companies are engaged in installing and servicing them in Voronezh.
In the Left Bank area, plastic collecting nets, on the contrary, were removed at 26 addresses - at the request of the management company. The head of the specialized organization says that they did not set any conditions, they limited themselves to letters asking for the release of the territory. For a long time the place was not empty - now the grids are, however, from another organization.
“After this incident, agreements with management companies began to draw up a document stating that we install containers free of charge, we undertake to serve them, to avoid littering them, and some troubles related to the aesthetic appearance of the yard,” says Ekaterina Kolesnikov.
In the kitchen, the Pentyuhin family has four garbage bags at once. For the future of recycled materials - put on the most prominent place.
- We did not separate garbage before and put everything in one bucket. It is necessary to separate the garbage, - the young city dweller Sonya Pentyuhina said in an interview with Vesti-Voronezh.
- Did you understand why you need to separate the garbage? - our correspondent asked the child.
- Because it can not get everything in the package alone? - answered the girl.
Separate trash just a week - for the sake of the experiment. True, it has to be taken out for two stops - to the Scarlet Sails park. Closer special containers not.
- Indeed, plastic and glass are renewable materials, these resources can be used again. But, unfortunately, in Voronezh, the conditions are not so favorable that the residents have the opportunity to comfortably collect and dispose of garbage as required, the town dweller Olesya Pentyuhina shares.
Separate garbage containers in Voronezh are installed at some gas stations, a railway station and in the “Central City Park”. But in the urn "plastic" citizens stubbornly throw cups out of the coffee, in the "metal" - polyethylene and glass. As a result, only one third of such garbage ends up for recycling, everything else is unsuitable.
The main goal of the system of separate garbage collection is that only organic garbage gets to landfills. Everything else is used as recyclable materials.
Plastic, which has recently been actively collected in Voronezh, is being returned to us - including in the form of synthetic clothing. Recycling seven bottles of mineral water is enough, for example, to make a regular T-shirt.
In Voronezh, while only paper is fully processed. Plastic, accounting for a quarter of all waste, is shipped to other regions.
Many types of garbage, for example, used batteries, can be handed over only during special actions, but despite this, the mayor's office is sure that the system of separate collection in Voronezh is working.
- We see what's real. It works. People perceive this topic with a bang, ready to participate in all activities related to the separate collection of waste. Equal to European countries, to other countries of the world for separate collection is probably not entirely correct. Because we have a slightly different system. We initially have no incinerators. And the population will not accept this topic very well, ”says Natalia Veter, head of the Voronezh Ecology Department.
There is no special program for the introduction of separate waste in the city; the transition process is expected to be lengthy. City Hall takes propaganda. The rest depends on the activity of waste sorting companies and the desire of ordinary residents.
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