In Russia, only 4% of all solid municipal waste is recycled

Head of Rosprirodnadzor Svetlana Radionova held a press conference on waste recycling in Russia.

According to the official, last year the country generated eight million tons of solid municipal waste, and only 4% of this mass was recycled. The official noted that in some regions there are no waste processing stations at all, and sorting stations are mostly ineffective due to the widespread use of manual labor.

The department sees one of the solutions in a complete rejection of non-processed colored plastic. “We have to move away from colored plastic, which is almost impossible to recycle. And we will come to this, whether we want to or not, “Interfax quotes Radionova.