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2022: Digitization of more than 500 landfills in Russia

In April 2022, Skyeer began executing the largest federal project for aerial monitoring of municipal solid waste landfills (MSW) in the interests of the Russian Environmental Operator PPK. IT specialists using unmanned aerial vehicles and their own software, which works in the data center in Russia, will have to assess the condition of the 500 largest landfills in 84 regions of the country. This will allow for the first time to reliably find out how much garbage is in Russia. More details here.

2021

All garbage trucks in Russia will be connected to the waste control system

July 20, 2021 it became known that all garbage trucks in Russia will be connected to the waste control system. The project was carried out by the Russian Environmental Operator (REO), which, thanks to it, expects to establish control over the movement of municipal solid waste (MSW) and engage in the "whitewashing" of this market. More details here.

Ministry of Energy proposed to halve the number of incinerators

Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation considers redundant for the Russia project for the construction of 25 incinerator thermal power plants (MTES), which lobbies the "daughter" of Rostec - "." RT-invest This was recorded in the April minutes of the departmental meeting, which the "" Sheets^[1]

"The position of the Ministry of Energy is that it is impractical to develop the energy utilization of municipal solid waste through PDM mechanisms, as well as the need to reduce the planned plants by half," the document says. PDMs (capacity agreements) provide additional income to investors through increased payments to wholesale energy consumers.

The Ministry of Energy confirmed to Vedomosti that they insist on reducing at least half the planned capacity of MTES. They explained that in such large MTES there is no need "based on the predicted volumes of waste" in the regions where their construction is planned. From the point of view of the current energy balance, "the construction of the considered generation facilities is excessive," they say in the Ministry of Energy, that is, there is no shortage of capacity. Therefore, MTES, according to the department, is necessary "exclusively as one of the technological solutions in the waste management industry."

In the Moscow region and Kazan, RT-invest is already building five enterprises worth about 180 billion rubles. They are planned to be commissioned by the end of 2023. The total capacity will be 355 MW, they will be able to burn 3.35 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) per year. All of them will receive support through the PDM mechanism. VEB participates in the financing, Rosatom is a technological partner.

RT-invest wants to build another 25 MTES with a capacity of 14.6 million tons of MSW for about 800 billion rubles. As Vedomosti wrote, these enterprises may appear on the Black Sea coast in the Sochi and Taman regions, in the Stavropol Territory, near St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod.

2020

148 incinerators and 253 landfills will be built in Russia

In Russia, as part of the "garbage reform," the number of incinerators and landfills will continue to grow. This was written in May 2020 by Kommersant, which analyzed the draft federal scheme for handling MSW of the state-owned company Russian Environmental Operator (REO)^[2].

As part of the project, it is planned to build or reconstruct 868 "garbage" objects, 700 of them are new. Among these facilities are 148 garbage incineration enterprises with a total capacity of 4.3 million tons per year. Their infrastructure is estimated at least 101 billion rubles. They also plan to build or modernize 351 landfills, which will spend at least 115 billion rubles. Another 201 billion will be spent on 355 sorting yards.

As noted in Kommersant, the REO program was prepared as part of the "garbage reform," the main goals of which were opposite. Thus, waste should have been perceived as raw materials, and priority should have been given to their processing and involvement in secondary circulation. While there are no more than ten new processing plants in this project.

Kommersant noted that in this form the document contradicts the goals of the waste management reform and the legislation updated at the start of the "garbage" reform. In it, waste incineration and disposal are at the last place in the list of priorities of state policy.

Also in the project, most objects are called "energy utilization." According to the authors of the article, this is due to the fact that in December 2019 amendments to the law "On waste of production and consumption" were adopted. Then the energy burning of garbage was equated with recycling, which is what the Ministry of Natural Resources and REO use to promote a project with a large number of new incinerators.

As for the construction of landfills, the REO explains such a number of new landfills by the fact that "it is more advisable to build new, modern landfills that protect the soil, water from the ingress of filtrate than to use existing ones where there is no such protection," Kommersant quoted the position.

Rostec and ВЭБ.РФ will build 25 garbage plants for 600 billion rubles

See also

• Electronic waste in Russia
• Electrical Waste (Global Market) Electronic Waste
• Garbage recycling
• Technologies in garbage recycling
• Plastic waste

• Space debris

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