On the site of the largest landfill closest to Moscow, a memorial park with a cemetery and military graves could be built at a total cost of 5 billion rubles. CJSC Industrial Company Eco, which is engaged in the reclamation of landfills, proposed to the government of the Moscow region to build a 70-meter memorial in the shape of a truncated pyramid on the site of the garbage mountain of the Levoberezhny landfill, which was closed by the authorities in 2012. Now, next to the mountain of garbage in the north of the Moscow Ring Road, there is already a cemetery, and a new complex would look appropriate. According to the authors of the project (the editors have a presentation), a columbarium will also be built around the memorial for residents of nearby cities, that is, a cemetery intended for burying ashes after cremation, a chapel and, accordingly, several crematoria.
Mayan pyramid on a trash foundation
The landfill body is unstable. The landfill is burning, and fires are coming to the surface; is spreading due to the lack of final covering, sediment drainage system and filtrate collection. From 2008 to 2012, waste was placed in the body of the landfill in violation of all environmental standards and regulations, says the presentation of the Eco company.
Now the landfill, which appeared on the site of the quarry in 1983, is officially closed; it occupies 37 hectares and is considered one of the largest in the region. The Eco company’s presentation states that more than 40 million tons of waste have accumulated at the landfill. Despite a series of decisions by local authorities at various levels to close the landfill and fines, the management company continued to accept garbage, and this caused protests among local residents: they saw garbage trucks from their windows, and the scandal then reached the Ministry of Natural Resources. However, later bloggers reported that garbage continued to be taken to the landfill, only from the back side.
IN different time they wanted to turn the landfill into a ski resort, a plant for processing accumulated waste, as well as an asphalt plant, noted in the Eco presentation, but the projects constantly faced challenges environmental problems, with too long a payback period (payback period ski resort left for 20 years, says a source in the Moscow region government) and the dissatisfaction of the citizens themselves.
Based on the sketches, the complex, similar to the Mayan pyramids, will be built in the form of a truncated pyramid the height of a 25-story building, which is about 70 m. The building will have several paved terraces (there are five in the image in the presentation, not counting the upper platform), Granite urns with the ashes of heroes brought “from other places” (reburial), a number of benches and lanterns can be installed on them along the perimeter. Stairs will lead to the top from several sides, widening to the top, on which a tank, stele and Eternal Flame can be installed. On one of the slides of the presentation, “Eco” emphasizes the status of the memorial as “an important social object and a zone of attraction for the patriotic education of youth,” as a “world-class funeral facility.”
Cemeteries are more profitable to build than resorts
The concept of the memorial park will include<...>a park area, a memorial complex, a chapel and a number of elements of a single ensemble of a park and memorial complex, the project of which will be developed as the second stage of reclamation<...>as its logical continuation,” writes the general director of the company, Maxim Biryukov, in a covering letter to the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Management of the Moscow Region, Alexander Kogan.
First, you need to take out the entire facility on a long-term lease from the municipality of the city of Khimki, the presentation indicates, then the company can reclaim the landfill, that is, rid it of rotten waste and chemicals, and also set up a system for collecting toxic gases released. In particular, it is proposed to develop a system of trenches for collecting filtrate and gases, applying insulating materials and soil 10–11 m thick. After completion of reclamation, the company is ready to begin construction of the park itself.
In total, the project, according to the calculations of its initiator Eco, will require 5 billion rubles, of which about 1.5–2 billion rubles will be spent on reclamation (by the way, the cadastral value of the land under the landfill is 1.41 billion rubles). According to a source in the government of the Moscow region, the investor promised to find investments on his own and recoup them through the sale of places in the future cemetery, which will operate as part of the memorial complex. The investor is Austrian, Biryukov himself told Izvestia, but refused to disclose his name.
The memorial will occupy about 6 hectares, which is almost three times less than the area now occupied by the mountain (17 hectares) 87 m high, and several times smaller than the entire landfill (37 hectares). The remaining space (70, or 26 hectares) can be given to a cemetery with a columbarium, several crematoria, as well as to the regional state budgetary institution “Ritual”, which is proposed to be created “by analogy with the Moscow [similar] institution.” According to Biryukov’s calculations, about 200 thousand places for columbar urns can be built here.
The company explains the choice of developing the landfill as a columbarium by “an acute shortage of land for burial throughout the Moscow region.” According to Eco, “there is only a few months left for burial of the residents of Khimki,” the need for only Khimki and neighboring Dolgoprudny is 78.63 hectares. Places in the cemetery can go either to Khimki and Dolgoprudny, or to the entire region; on the slide about the “additional advantages” of the project, the company writes about the columbarium as “an object of bargaining with Moscow regarding the burial of its residents.” In the last few years, when cemetery plots began to be put up for auction, the average cost of a burial plot in Moscow reached 350 thousand rubles, which often leads to outrage, Biryukov says.
In addition, the authorities will be able to significantly save on the burial of citizens - during the management of the cemetery and the return of investments (the authorities are invited to conclude an investment contract or concession with the investor, Biryukov advocates an investment contract, the authorities, according to him, want to conclude a concession) the company is “ready to take on social burials and cremation carried out at public expense,” the return on investment period is estimated to be at least 10 years.
This is, in fact, the first such project for the reclamation of this landfill, in which the authorities do not need to invest - all the money is provided by the investor. Previous projects were cut off largely due to lack of money in the budget. The investor plans to return the funds invested in the reconstruction of the landfill by selling space in the columbarium; they say that the creation of a new cemetery on the site of the landfill “would ease the problem of the shortage of burial places,” says a source close to CJSC Industrial Company Eco. - Now on the territory of such memorial complexes the cost of a grave site ranges from 1.5 million to 6 million rubles, for example, at the Troekurovsky cemetery [considered one of the prestigious cemeteries in Moscow, also adjacent to the Moscow Ring Road and has its own crematorium] it reaches 8 million rubles . The cost of a place for a grave is hundreds of times more expensive than the cost of a place for an urn. Burials here will be made in granite walls; there are no columbariums of this type in Russia. If everything works out, I think the memorial project can be nominated for an architectural nomination.
According to the SPARK database, this company was registered in 2011 in the city of Vladimir by Alexander Valov and Sergei Gerasimov, there is no data on revenue and profit, and the authorized capital of Eco is only 10 thousand rubles, which has not changed since the company was registered. The only available accounting records for Eco in Rosstat are for 2013, and, according to it, its assets amounted to only 65 thousand rubles. The company was created specifically for this project and did not conduct financial activities, Biryukov claims.
As for the owners, Sergey Gerasimov, in addition to Eco, is the current general director of the Vladimir company Stroyservis, which was registered in January 2014. The company's revenue for 2014 amounted to 21.8 million rubles, and the declared net profit was 88 thousand rubles. Gerasimov also owns 91% of Impulse LLC, which was registered in February 2009 in Moscow and is engaged in the trade of crushed stone. Financial statements The company is available only for 2012, then the company received government orders for the supply of crushed stone to the City Roads Management Center in the amount of 10.4 million rubles - this is the entire revenue of the company for 2012, and the declared net profit is 25 thousand rubles. In May 2015, Gerasimov registered another company - Vladimir Construction Company LLC, where he owns 50%.
Alexander Valov, together with Eco, was the head of three more companies in the Vladimir region - Plazma LLC, Kontinent Company CJSC and Opolye TOO, the companies were liquidated at the end of 2010 or the beginning of 2011, all companies specialized in working with waste and metallurgical scrap. At the same time, in Moscow and the Moscow region, several companies are also registered with Valov that work with waste and scrap, all of them are operating - Metalltransstroy LLC, STTK LLC and Kontinent CJSC, Valov’s share in them is 27, 19 and 16% respectively. All Moscow companies were registered more than 10 years ago, their authorized capital is 10 thousand rubles, but the financial statements of these companies are not disclosed.
“Eko” is engaged in the reclamation of landfills, Biryukov points out in a letter to Kogan. According to the government procurement website, Eco has no experience in the construction of memorials or the construction of cemeteries, but the companies associated with it, in particular, according to Biryukov, Promalyans Group of Companies, participated as a subcontractor and performer in the construction of two biogas mini-CHPs at Kuryanovsky water treatment plant (€23.8 million) and at the treatment plant in Lyubertsy (€65.7 million) - all for Mosvodokanal, as well as the sodium hypochloride production plant of the Austrian EVN AG for €175 million. Last year, the plant after EVN's conflict with the Moscow mayor's office (/news/588665) was transferred to the same Mosvodokanal for €250 million. Mosvodokanal was unable to provide an immediate comment. EVN AG spokesman Stefan Zach could neither confirm nor deny the participation of structures associated with Eco in the construction of the plants.
To approve a new company project, a decision from the regional government is required. "Eco" is negotiating with the mayor's office of Khimki, as well as the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources Management (regarding the reclamation of the landfill) and the Ministry of Consumer Market and Services (on the project of the memorial and organization of the cemetery) of the region, says a source in the Moscow region government. In general, the ministries considering the project have no complaints about it, the mayor’s office of Khimki agrees, and have already sent it for approval to the Ministry of Investment and Innovation of the Moscow Region, the interlocutor continues, in the first quarter of 2016, the project with the business plan being prepared by Biryukov will be considered by the government itself at special “investment hour”. It is possible that a preferential landfill rental rate and a reduced income tax may be applied as relief.
The Ministry of Ecology and the Ministry of Investment of the Moscow Region, as well as the administration of Khimki, did not respond to requests. The press service of the Moscow Region Ministry of Consumer Markets, which oversees the cemetery, confirmed to Izvestia that a proposal for a memorial pyramid had been received, but indicated that they would leave the decision on the issue to the Ministry of Ecology.
So far, no one in the world has tried to replace landfills with columbariums with memorials - as a rule, after reclamation, parks are built on the site of landfills, as indicated in the project presentation. There are also examples when garbage mountains were adapted for winter sports, says Alexander Tsygankov, an employee of the toxic department of Greenpeace Russia. According to the ecologist, the close location of the Levoberezhny solid waste landfill to residential areas (about 500 m) is a manifestation of the garbage crisis in which Moscow finds itself: due to its rapid growth, the metropolis is running into landfills left over from Soviet times. The problem of this landfill is very acute - gases are actively accumulating there, adds Tsygankov. Because of this, the landfill regularly catches fire, smoke from it spreads to the entire nearby neighborhood, and the population is unhappy.
However, replacing a landfill with a cemetery may also cause objections among the population; in addition, the crematoria will be located in close proximity to residential areas. “Eko” understands this “moral aspect of burials on the site of a former solid waste landfill” “as an investment risk that will be offset by significant investments in the formation of a positive image of the project,” the presentation states. According to environmental standards, the installation of crematoria in such close proximity to residential areas is permitted, the sanitary protection zone for them is from 500 to 1000 m depending on the number of furnaces, in addition, the filtration system helps to minimize the negative impact, says one of the Rosprirodnadzor inspectors who wished to stay unnamed.
In addition to the garbage context, weak demand for columbaria may hinder
True, not everyone in the Moscow region government is in favor of reburying the remains of heroes and unknown soldiers at the dump site, as the Eco company proposes. As for the department headed by Sergei Shoigu (he worked as governor of the Moscow region from May to November 2012), an anonymous interlocutor at the Ministry of Defense noted that the procedure for re-registration and reburial can take “more than one decade” and involves the installation of such a burial place for registration with the Ministry of Defense. If there is no reburial and only a stele is installed, then only the Ministry of Culture should be notified.
The presentation did not arrive at the Ministry of Defense. Until the project has been approved by the Government of the Moscow Region, it is pointless to assure the Ministry of Defense,” said a source in the ministry.
There are no architectural analogues to such a structure in Russia, he added. Elena Tsunaeva, the executive secretary of the Russian Search Movement, has not heard of such structures either. In her opinion, reburying the remains at the foot of the memorial is unethical - the religious feelings of citizens may be hurt, and there may always be relatives who disagree with cremation, she emphasizes.
It is not clear how the installation of the memorial itself is played out, because, as a rule, they are all thematic and somehow historically tied to the installation site. The installation of a memorial at the landfill site is, in principle, very ambiguous,” adds Tsunaeva.
Even if the authorities approve the project, it is unlikely that it will be able to quickly pay for itself - the crematoria built in Russia and Moscow are only 50% occupied, the crematorium at the Troekurovsky cemetery is idle, and in the Moscow region there are no crematoria at all, says the vice-president of the Union of Funeral Organizations and crematoria Alexey Suloev.
In Moscow, according to Suloev, there are about 6-10 crematoria; there are columbariums in cemeteries, but there are no separate columbariums. If the state is obliged to provide a free grave site, then cremation is an exclusively paid procedure, he adds.
On the other hand, notes Suloev, the creation of a regional state unitary enterprise (by law, all cemeteries in the country must belong to municipalities and be managed by state-owned enterprises), proposed by the investor, may solve the problem of loading - people can be brought from nearby areas of the Moscow region and Moscow, who are also free There are no cemeteries closer than 27 km to Moscow. Places in the columbarium may also be of interest to relatives of those beneficiaries who received a bad burial place, says Elena Andreeva, executive director of the union.
But due to the low cost of cremation beds [several tens of thousands of rubles], it is difficult to return the investment in 10 years. Perhaps the project is not being initiated for the sake of building a memorial with a columbarium, Suloev believes.
It is possible that the investor simply needs to sell the land for the removal of which he was paid good money, says a source close to the company, or, for example, scrap material suitable for processing may be found at the landfill. There is no useful waste at the landfill, and the company does not have unnecessary land, Biryukov claims.
And this is not to mention the fact that private cemeteries in Russia are prohibited in principle, new law, legalizing private cemeteries and columbariums, was never adopted [referring to the Federal Law “On Burial and Funeral Business,” which was submitted to the State Duma in May (/news/584059)], he added.
If the project pays off, similar columbaria could be organized at other waste landfills closed by the authorities, located 15–20 km from the Moscow Ring Road, such as the Salaryevo landfill, Biryukov believes.
In the north-eastern part of the Levoberezhny microdistrict of Khimki, Moscow region, not far from the Moscow Ring Road, there is a giant garbage dump. Officially it is called the “Levoberezhny” Solid Waste Landfill, and in common parlance it is the Left Bank, Khimki, Kireevsk landfill. It is separated from the residential buildings of the microdistrict by about 750 m. The landfill area is about 20 hectares, the height is approximately the size of a 12-14-story building. This mountain of garbage is visible from several kilometers away not only to residents of the Left Bank, but also to the right bank of Khimki, as well as to residents of the Moscow districts of Businovo and Khovrino.
The presence of a landfill makes the environmental situation in this part of Khimki extremely unfavorable and it is getting worse every year. Meanwhile, back in the 1970-80s. The left bank of Khimki was one of the most beautiful natural corners of the near Moscow region. Left Bank residents even called their region “Russian Switzerland.” The main reason for the transformation of a beautiful area into an environmental disaster zone was precisely the emergence and thoughtless operation of a landfill.
The polygon was formed in the middle. 1970s on the site of a former clay quarry near the village of Novo-Kireevo, hence the name “Kireevo dump”. Back in the first half of the 1980s. the landfill was almost level with the ground in height, and quite far from the residential buildings of the Left Bank. But gradually it expanded, growing in breadth and height and length, gradually approaching the residential area. In the 1980s There were rumors among the local population about its imminent closure, but this did not happen - as one of the officials put it, “they decided to develop the landfill.” And in the 1990s - 2000s. garbage disposal has become more profitable commercial business, the operation of the landfill has finally become predatory. Endless lines of garbage trucks brought tens of tons of waste here, and in a matter of years, a 10-story mountain of garbage grew in the once beautiful Left Bank.
In 2005-2006 For the population of the Left Bank, the situation with the landfill has become intolerable, especially for residents of the streets nearby - Sovkhoznaya, Bibliotechnaya and Pozharsky, who began to complain to the administration of the Khimki urban district, calling the existence of the landfill a mockery of the residents of the microdistrict, calling it “a terrible landfill in every sense” . Because the windows of many houses faced the landfill, and as soon as the wind rose, a strong smell of stench spread. Residents complained about unsanitary conditions, an endless line of garbage trucks outside their windows, and an increase in the number of respiratory diseases and cancer. Television came repeatedly to film reports about the plight of the population. But the landfill, meanwhile, continued to function, although all possibilities for placing waste in this place had been exhausted. Currently, there are reports that the landfill was closed in 2012 (at least officially) and a decision was made to reclaim it. However, the gigantic mountain of garbage that has accumulated over decades continues to poison the soil and atmosphere and create an unfavorable environmental situation in a significant part of Khimki and North-West Moscow.
We live in the most beautiful country in the world, and all other countries envy us! Only here in the town of Khimki near Moscow, residents are so happy about the huge garbage dump on the outskirts that they ask them not to clean it up under any circumstances. After all, thanks to this landfill, they will be able to live forever! And they have no other choice. They want to abandon the cemetery.
I knew that many unique people live in our city. They were against the construction of a highway interchange and were happy about the traffic jam. They believed that the new M11 highway on the Left Bank would hang in the air and have no exits to the Moscow Ring Road. Now they are against funerals. Do they buy land for cemeteries in other cities?
I love my city. Every day I see its pros and cons. Every day I understand that our people are specific, and those who come to new buildings quickly begin to consider themselves masters of the city.
Today we will talk about a landfill familiar to all residents of Khimki, Dolgoprudny and the surrounding areas of Moscow. It rises tens of meters not far from the Moscow Ring Road in the Khimki region, which is called Levoberezhny. Starts here toll road to St. Petersburg. Every person passing by could not help but see this terrible mountain.
It is located on the map:
This is one of the largest landfills in the region. The entire territory of the facility occupies 37 hectares. It is covered with earth. There is no life around. Shopping mall They never decided to build it; the large left-bank interchange was also not fully built. Near the landfill there is only the Southern Dolgoprudnenskoye cemetery and another waste landfill, this time Dolgoprudnenskoye.
This is what this left bank miracle looks like. 
After the New Year in the city's largest online community "Typical Khimki" A post appeared on VKontakte about the dissatisfaction of residents of the Left Bank region with the future construction of a cemetery and crematorium. Nobody indicates exactly where or why. No one will say what kind of project it is. Just go and sign a petition against it without understanding what and how. 
But here's the thing. If you look at the history of this project and all the news. The following picture emerges. A year ago, there were already discussions on this topic with the previous administration. It seems that they have reached a dead end or have moved to the stage of reworking the project. Unknown. The new project looks something like this: 
The entire facility offers the following: 
In short: a memorial complex with a chapel, an eternal flame, a park, a children's playground, and a complex of office premises. All this, according to information from the network, should occupy about 6 hectares out of 37 occupied by the landfill. Everything else should become a cemetery and crematorium. What is important is that there is already a large, overcrowded cemetery nearby! New, no matter how it is registered, will allow you not to search new site and create a new burial place. The old one is just expanding. 
But Baba Yaga, the residents of the Left Bank microdistrict are against it! From their houses to the edge of the landfill territory is at least 500 meters, no matter how you count. On these five hundred meters there is a multi-level interchange, in comparison with which some houses are dwarfs.
But it would be interesting if they were told: we are not building a cemetery, but there is nowhere else to bury people. What would they do? Maybe it's time to speak Japanese? Cremation, small rooms with a lot of places to store ashes...
What will you choose in your city/district?
P.S.: of course, I should mention the fact that there is news about the possible conversion of a landfill into a ski resort. But apart from news, desire, beautiful words thrown into the wind, and what seemed like a decision made somewhere by someone, there was nothing.
Thank you for your attention! Stay in touch!
Trucks loaded with household waste are again entering the Levoberezhny solid waste landfill. For this purpose, it is not the central entrance to the landfill from the Likhachevskoe Highway, but the rear entrance, hidden from prying eyes, that is used. The garbage trucks return empty. At the landfill, the work of which is supervised by the Property Management Committee of the Khimki Administration, reclamation work is officially underway: only soil is allowed to be brought there. In July 2012 As part of the governor's program "Our Moscow Region", after numerous protests from local residents, the landfill was officially closed for garbage collection. However, what we saw during our last visit to the landfill testifies to the fact that individual Khimki officials and the garbage mafia have their own point of view on conducting economic activities, and it clearly does not coincide with Governor Vorobyov’s plans to reduce the number of garbage dumps operating in the Moscow region.
Since summer 2012 Above the main entrance to the landfill territory there are such beautiful banners indicating that the facility has ceased its work.
But what happens at the entrance to the landfill from the back side. The photos were taken by us at the end of last week. 
And now let us remind our readers of the dramatic history of the Levoberezhny solid waste landfill, full of bloody and heroic moments
Driving along the Moscow Ring Road in the Left Bank region of Khimki, many of you see every day huge mountain garbage - municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill "Leoberezhny". This is an illegally operating landfill that makes the lives of thousands of local residents hell. Back in the 70s-80s, this Khimki district could be proud of its ecology and was one of the most beautiful natural areas of the near Moscow region. It was with the emergence of this landfill and its subsequent thoughtless exploitation that many problems and disasters began in the region, which today stands on the verge of an environmental catastrophe.
Solid waste landfill on Yandex maps.
The landfill was growing at a rapid pace. Established in 1983 on the site of the quarry, within a few years it was level with the ground, and even then conversations began about its closure. However, the closure did not happen, and in the 90s the mountain of garbage was already the size of a multi-story building. At the same time, if previously the landfill stood in a vacant lot, far from residential buildings, over time, residential areas approached it and it began to cause a lot of inconvenience to residents. Especially those whose windows faced her. As soon as the wind rose, a strong stench flew into the apartments. Residents complained about unsanitary conditions, and the number of respiratory diseases and cancer increased. Television came more than once to film reports on the plight of the population.
The situation became intolerable by the mid-2000s, when the landfill began to be periodically set on fire in order to compact layers of garbage and increase its resource. It was then that the first complaints from local residents went to the City Administration. However, the landfill continued to operate no matter what. The storage of waste was carried out with gross violations. By 2009, the height of the landfill exceeded the critical threshold of 50m, and the garbage continued to remain and remain, contrary to all sanitary standards.
In 2010, the landfill's license finally expired. However, they again tried to extend its service life. From this moment on, mass pickets and rallies began for the closure of the landfill. October 26, 2010 The Khimki City Court decided to suspend its work due to gross violations of the law, which resulted in serious damage to the environment. However, the landfill did not stop its work for a day. As local residents said, on the first day after the verdict, garbage was brought in at night, and after that - in the open. Numerous complaints from residents to the Khimki administration did not help. The public was stirred up only by rallies near the walls of the Khimki Administration, as well as pickets by residents near the landfill, which Khimki activist Konstantin Fetisov was not afraid to lead. Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs then drove residents away from the landfill, complaining that “everything here is legal.” Although the residents came with copies of the court decision in their hands...
Then, during the picket, Konstantin Fetisov, the leader of the local branch of the Right Cause party, was detained. A day later, he was brutally beaten near his own home, was in a coma for a long time and miraculously survived. The case of beating Fetisov became one of the most high-profile attacks on public figures in Khimki, along with the beatings of journalists M. Beketov and A. Yurov. Andrei Chernyshev, an official reporting directly to the deputy, was convicted of the attempt on Fetisov’s life. Mayor of Khimki Alexey Valov. Be that as it may, the picketing of the landfill continued. Activists and local residents blocked the entrance to the Khimki landfill, which was operating in defiance of a court order. But this only helped for a short time. The landfill did not stop its work for a day; caravans with garbage came one after another. In December 2011 The head of Khimki, V. Strelchenko, signed an order to close the landfill from June 1, 2012. But the decision remained unfulfilled. In the same month of June, residents again began to complain about the resumption of work at the landfill. Federal officials intervened in the matter (the Ministry of Natural Resources is concerned about reports about the resumption of work at the solid waste landfill in Khimki). And then, finally, with sweat and blood (in the literal sense of the word), with the support of the media, the landfill was closed. The decision was made by the new governor of the Moscow region, A.Yu. Vorobyov, and the story about the closure was shown on Channel One. But even this supreme decision was not enough for the landfill owners. That same year, the landfill continued to operate. An original solution was invented - to transport garbage from the back side of the mountain, hidden from prying eyes. By that time, the height of the mountain was already 80 meters, which is more than half more than the upper threshold.
The rudeness of the landfill owners is easily explained. The garbage business is a very profitable business. The regulatory authorities are few in number and the existing fines are minor. The conditions for making money are ideal. Therefore, there are a huge number of illegal landfills in the Moscow region. For 1,300 illegal ones in the region, there are only 39 legal landfills. Moreover, only 15 of them can continue to operate, since the resources of the rest have simply been exhausted (including Levoberezhny), and they are not going to renew their license in the region. 15 landfills are not capable of absorbing 10 million tons of waste from Moscow and the region per year. For reference, the Moscow region annually accounts for 20% of all waste in the country. There was even talk of distributing garbage from the Moscow region to other regions of the country. But while these plans remain just talk, waste streams continue to flow to existing landfills, bringing fabulous profits to the owners of officially closed but actually operating landfills. People take it seriously, apparently, since the governor’s orders are not their decree.
According to our data, garbage continues to be transported to the landfill to this day!
We ask that local and regional officials pay the closest attention to these facts.
The Levoberezhny training ground has been officially closed for some time now
almost four years, but local residents are convinced that garbage trucks continue to come here at night and in the morning hours to unload their unpleasant contents.
The fresh track from trucks is clearly visible here.
It starts from the exit from the highway here to the training ground and
ends right next to the gate, which is currently closed.
Having seen the delegation of inspectors, the local landfill guard was not happy to meet with journalists and denied the facts of garbage importation.
It is unclear whether reclamation of this landfill will be carried out. Local residents say that cars continue to arrive with garbage anyway.
The landfill administration denies these facts.
...We were going to live in the local “Courchevel”
When buying an apartment in an expensive new building in Khimki directly opposite the Levoberezhny landfill, the shareholders were sure that there would be a wonderful view from the window.
Let's see what layers we live in: here, for example, is the view from the window.
When people bought an apartment, on one side there was the Moscow Canal, and on the other side they were promised a ski resort.
It was the ski resort that the local authorities were supposed to reclaim the Khimki landfill "Levoberezhnaya" into.
But something went wrong, and instead of Courchevel near Moscow from the windows
In their apartments, local residents watch the garbage pile grow.
On the same territory where the landfill is located, there is also a solid waste processing plant, and one would think that dozens of trucks are transporting waste there at night, if not for one nuance - local residents have seen garbage being brought to the waste processing plant many times, but we never saw anything being taken away from there.
Every summer, a closed landfill, which should have been covered with soil, regularly smokes, poisoning the air for tens of kilometers around.
Opening windows in summer is an unaffordable luxury for the people living here.
The landfill burns methane, which is released when waste rots. Residents of nearby houses often see smoke, which they periodically try to cover up, but summer season it happens like
at least several times.
The so-called “primer” produced is not completely done.
Because of this, spontaneous fires occur in the landfill. Reclamation has not been carried out at the landfill, so instead of a ski resort, the Khimki administration offers local residents to live next to a crematorium and a memorial complex, which, if the protests of the latter are not heard, will be built next to the landfill in the next few years.
There is not enough solid waste landfill - let's add a crematorium!
An interesting survey was posted on the official website of the Khimki city district administration. It's called - "Citizen Survey. Memorial Complex"- is it necessary to install on
territory of the urban district of Khimki memorial
a complex on which the names of the missing Khimki residents, called up to the front in the Khimki region, will be immortalized by name.
Classic answers available "Yes" And "No", but something else is interesting here - in this survey there is not a word about the fact that there will also be a crematorium on the site of the memorial complex.
Residents are of course against such an initiative by the authorities. Such residents in all regions of the country are actively supported by environmental experts.
What to do with all these landfills?
In the near future it is planned to create interactive map landfills, where anyone can report an illegal landfill or a spontaneous dump, after which activists will provide
your help in solving this problem.
In total, there are more than one and a half thousand landfills in the country,
and about 7,000 illegal dumps.
Reclaiming them all is an incredible task, because in the case of official landfills there is someone to ask, but if we are talking about spontaneous garbage, in the absence of a responsible person it is often impossible to even begin paperwork. The regulatory body in the area of solid waste management is Rosprirodnadzor, which is responsible for recording violations and regulating the activities of landfills. However, now departments are limited in their capabilities.
Rosprirodnadzor can inspect organizations once every three years, and before the inspection the body must notify entity about a scheduled inspection.
During an unscheduled inspection, if, for example, an appeal has been received from citizens or residents, Rosprirodnadzor must coordinate this inspection with the prosecutor's office of the constituent entities and notify the inspected organization three days in advance. The effect of such a check is usually small.
In fact, the main problem is not how to control landfills, but that the mere burial of such quantities of waste in soil entails an environmental disaster.
The process of decomposition of organic matter will take about a hundred years, while plastic will decompose for at least half a millennium. Imagine: a soda bottle left on and will only naturally decompose in 2517.
Experts and the government see a way out of this difficult situation in new approaches to waste disposal, which are already actively used in Western countries.
Waste is a goldmine; it is a colossal resource base that can be used in a variety of ways.
But in order to obtain this resource, waste must be sorted. Therefore, the first thing that needs to be done is to establish a waste sorting system.
The most widely used sorting system in the world is separate collection.
Sorting at waste recycling plants is also possible.
Of course, building such a waste management system will take more than a dozen years, but in order to bring this environmentally friendly future closer by throwing out a bucket of candy wrappers, don’t be lazy to sort your household waste.
