Rospotrebnadzor updates SanPiN for separate waste collection

Previously, the executive director of the Clean Country Waste Management Association Ruslan Gubaidullin suggested that the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova change SanPiN so that they take into account the separate collection of garbage, the possibility of overnight waste disposal and the specifics of hard-to-reach settlements where there is no year-round traffic, and regional operators can not get there about four months a year. Later, he clarified that according to current standards it is impossible to put more than five tanks on one container platform, and the tank itself must be metal, welded from iron and knocked out of wooden planks. Popova admitted that SanPiN can be changed with proper justification and compliance with the basic principle - the preservation of public health.

"The Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare is currently preparing an updated version of SanPiN 42-128-4690-88" Sanitary rules for maintaining the territories of populated areas ", taking into account the comments received after a public discussion, in which, including The possibility of organizing the separate accumulation of municipal solid waste (MSW), as well as the question of the frequency of export of MSW from difficult-to-reach settlements, is being studied, "the department said.

The press service of Rospotrebnadzor added that the updated version of this SanPiN is now undergoing scientific and peer review, then it will be re-sent for public discussion.

Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Gordeyev on January 31 at the first meeting of the government commission on waste management of production and consumption called the priority task of switching to separate waste collection in the Russian Federation by the end of 2019 on a two-stream basis. Initially, the transition to the RNO was not incorporated into the reform of the garbage industry, which started in the country in January 2019.

The principle of two streams assumes that residents put recyclable materials (paper, plastic, metal, glass) in one container, not contaminated with organic matter, and in the other - dirty packaging, rubbish, swept from the streets, and organic waste. At the end of February, the press service of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation TASS said that the North Ossetia Republic would be introduced, primarily, in million-plus cities. On March 18, at an open dialogue with the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Dmitry Kobylkin, the Chairman of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko, noted the need for the earliest creation of infrastructure in the Russian Federation for separate garbage collection. According to her, citizens have long been ready for this innovation.

source: https://tass.ru