Between 80 per cent and 85 per cent of the debris is exported for burial to special polygons.

Every year, the number of solid domestic waste in Russia is increasing by 7 billion tons, and now more than 80 billion tons have accumulated in the country, and the First Vice-Speaker of the Federation Council, Alexander Thorsin.

The experts believe that the figure given by the official is high and in reality is 45 to 50 million tons.

But millions, not billions of tons of solid domestic waste (BW) are also a huge problem.

One of its main reasons is that there are no mechanisms in Russia to regulate the market for collecting and processing TBTs.

There is also a shortage of literate managers capable of operating the entire waste chain.

Russia needs a packing law that is effectively applied in many countries of the world.

In order to manage debris in a reasonable and effective manner, it must be sorted.

Lack of expertise

Every year, the number of TBTs in Russia increases directly in proportion to GDP growth.

Moscow alone is at least 4 million tons of waste per year.

From 80 to 85 per cent is exported to burial polygons in Moscow province, the same situation as in Russia as a whole: large cities are disposed of mainly by this means.

By comparison, less than 20 per cent of TBOs are buried in Europe.

It is not possible to solve the problem by burial and incinerators, and it is the head of the Toxic Program of the Russian Greenpeace Alexei Kiselev.

This is both costly and causes significant harm to the environment: only a plastic bottle is degraded for about 200 years (as in Europe and, above all, in Russia, this type of packaging has been distributed relatively recently until direct evidence is available).

Experts point to a basic shortage of specialists in waste management.

This is the first reason that prevents the successful development of the sanitation system as a subsector of SCHs in Moscow and Russia.

In mid-March this year, the Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, stated that there would be no construction of new incinerators in Moscow.

An open letter to the Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobianin, asking for close attention to the problem of the disposal of TBTs, is posted on the website of the magazine "Steer Domestic Wastes."