In the Yaroslavl region, residents opposed the transshipment station for garbage

Residents of the Rostov Great and Rostov municipal districts opposed the creation of a MSW transshipment station on the territory of the district. Rostov residents and residents of nearby villages began collecting signatures against the equipment of such a site. It is believed that the site will become

As previously reported in the government of the Yaroslavl region, after a summer fire at the MSW landfill near Rostov the Great found significant violations in waste management. As a result, it was decided to close the site. And all the garbage of the city-museum to take to Yaroslavl, to the landfill Skokovo. There it is stored and partly sorted and processed. In the Rostov district at the transshipment station are going to overload the MSW of Rostov, Borisoglebsky and Pereslavl on better large trucks. Residents believe that such a site for unloading and loading will destroy the environment for kilometers around.

The authorities tried to explain themselves.

“The land plot for the construction of the waste handling station has not yet been determined. The plot will be selected in accordance with all the requirements of the legislation, the administration’s website says. Residents were also assured that an asphalted or concrete platform will be created for the transshipment station to prevent soil and water pollution.