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"In these recommendations, we would like all your ideas to find a place, and we will continue to promote them. It is advisable that we get quality laws, and we were sure that they would do good for us," he said.

Waste prevention is the second priority of the state policy in the field of waste management, approved in the Federal Law 89 “On Production and Consumption Waste”. State Secretary-Deputy Head of Rospotrebnadzor Mikhail Orlov, who participated in the meeting, pointed out that this priority is given little attention in the regions, it is often not present in regional garbage management schemes, and the subjects focus on processing, recycling and neutralizing waste. Due to a shift in priorities, supervisory authorities are struggling with the consequences, and the cause of problems in the industry is not eliminated, he said.

The coordinator of the Zero Waste project, Greenpeace, Alexander Ivannikov, noted that it would be possible to significantly reduce the volume of waste generated in Russia at the retail stage, if one decides on disposable goods and complex composite packaging. "Greenpeace recommends developing a list of goods, packaging and packaging - hard-to-recover, disposable and difficult to process, which must be phased out of circulation in the territory of the Russian Federation, by analogy with the list of materials that are not subject to disposal," he added.

The Levada Center data was presented at the meeting: almost half of Russians (47.7%) are sure that the problem of landfills can be solved by reducing the consumption of disposable packaging in supermarkets. Almost a third of Russian residents (29%) are ready to stop using disposable packaging and packaging, if a system for using reusable alternatives appears in stores and catering facilities.

During the discussion, it was suggested that middle-aged women and representatives of the younger generation are ready to abandon plastic bags in favor of avosek, while men over 45 are less concerned about environmental issues. However, Alexander Lebedev, co-director of the Master in Management Program in Retail at the Higher School of Economics, indicated that older people have experience with using avosek, so it may be easier for them to return to this concept.

Disposal of usable products

Director of implementation of industry-wide projects and programs of X5 Retail Group Dmitry Rusakov drew attention to the problem of recycling products in retail, still usable. According to him, retailers are ready to transfer such products as charity to people in need, but the export of products to the landfill is 30-40% cheaper. This leads to the irrational use of food and the rotting of organic garbage in landfills.

The chairman of the presidium of the Association of AKORT retail companies, Sergei Belyakov, pointed out that the supply of disposable packaging and packages is stimulated by demand. When discussing the rejection of them and the transition to expensive reusable packaging it is necessary to come up with a model in which the network will not incur losses and will not pass on additional costs to the consumer.

“While there are people in Russian families who remember this experience, it is important to introduce packaging reuse into everyday life. If this is a new experience for European countries, then Russians just need to remember how it was 30 years ago,” the first deputy said. Chairman of the Central Council of the All-Russian Society for the Conservation of Nature Elmurod Rasulmukhamedov. He noted that the improvement of the institute of extended producer responsibility (EPR) will reduce the large-scale production of disposable packaging.

EPR is the principle by which manufacturers of goods circulating in the territory of the Russian Federation must pay an environmental fee for their disposal or enter into contracts for the processing of waste from their products (mainly packaging). Environmental collection rates and recycling standards vary for each product category. Thus, according to the decision of the Government of the Russian Federation, now the rate for 1 ton of wooden packaging is 3066 rubles, paper packaging - 2378 rubles, plastic - 3844 rubles, hollow glass - 2564 rubles, monitors and TVs - 26469 rubles and plastic packaging - 3844 rubles.

According to a government decree approving waste disposal standards for 2018–2020, manufacturers in 2019 must dispose of or pay for ecological collection for 35% cardboard, 15% wooden packaging, 15% plastic packaging, 20% hollow glass, 10% monitors and televisions and 15% polymer packaging.

"Today, Russian legislation is too loyal to producers of disposable goods and packaging, to foreign suppliers, and