As it became known to Constantinople, investors and developers of waste incineration plants for the Moscow region did not abandon the idea of building up the region with giant waste disposal furnaces. This was mentioned at one of the recent meetings of the project developers - RT-Invest company - with experts in Moscow.
The meeting once again discussed the risks of operating the first four waste incineration plants (MSZ) - in Noginsk, Voskresensk, Naro-Fominsk and Solnechnogorsk districts. The locations of the remaining enterprises have not yet been announced to the public. But it is obvious that none of the region's residents is immune from the appearance of a huge garbage oven in their "backyard" in the coming years.
According to the Ministry of Ecology and Nature Management of the region, more than 10 million tons of waste are produced in the Moscow region annually. Back in 2015, waste incineration lobbyists asked President Putin to allocate funds from the federal budget for the construction of 15 waste incineration plants with a capacity of up to 700 thousand tons of waste per year. However, money from the national project “Clean Country” was received only for four such plants.
According to Khlynov, public organizations have long been in dialogue with the developers of plant projects and with the authors of the "Clean Country" project from the state corporation "Rostec". For example, now the regional branch of the ONF in the Moscow region is preparing an appeal to the investor of the MSZ, RT-Invest, with a list of questions for a broad public discussion of projects of waste incineration plants. And there are reasons for this: so far, not a single independent public organization intending to conduct a public environmental examination of the incineration plant in the Moscow region has received the entire set of project documents, despite the fact that there is even an April decision of the Supreme Court, in particular, on the plant near Voskresensk …
In Naro-Fominsk, AGK-1 (part of RT-Invest) referred to a trade secret, refusing the public to obtain project documentation. But here, too, the developers were put in their place in the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region at the suit of the Principle society.
“The documentation for all incinerators in the Moscow region is kept secret, even despite the court decisions in our favor. We insist that a public environmental review of all incinerator projects should be carried out. Residents of the region will put themselves and their children at risk by no means hypothetically, and we are not even allowed to get acquainted with the data on which our health directly depends,”says Anna Dmitrieva, co-coordinator of the Ecology movement.
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Recently, a Russian translation of a 2012 study by Spanish scientists from Environment International magazine was published on social media. Experts have come to the conclusion that emissions from incinerators in their country lead to an increase in cancer diseases in residents of neighboring areas. The study report states:
This spring, the publication of a translation of the scientific work of an international group of experts on the Dutch incineration plant, launched in 2011 and using the latest technology, caused a great response. It was dioxins that were carefully measured when studying the impact of this plant on the environment and human health.
It turned out that the grass on pastures near the plant contains almost twice as much dioxins as allowed by the "norms" - 1.2 pg TEQ / g at a rate of 0.75 pg TEQ / g. Chicken eggs in neighboring farms also turned out to be poisoned with dioxins. In general, 2-4 times more of these poisons were detected there than in grass and eggs in areas remote from the plant.
Scientists are sure that the source of poisoning of grass and eggs was precisely the emissions from the incineration plant: "The content of dioxin congeners in the flue gas samples taken by the long-term method is similar in value to the content of dioxin congeners in eggs of domestic chickens and phytomass samples of herbaceous plants," the report says. research.
Supporters of the plants assure that the new technologies that will be used at the Moscow Region Incinerators are modern, and therefore there are no risks from their use. A combustion temperature of more than 1200 degrees will avoid the release of dioxins, which cannot be formed in such a heat. But even here the specialists have a lot of buts.
The most important problem of any incinerators, and this has been proven by research on a Dutch plant, is the need to restart them. Experts note that household waste is not homogeneous, and in order to adjust the systems to the composition of the waste, the incineration process must be stopped and started again. At this moment, hazardous substances are released, and their amount can be significantly exceeded. It is not possible to learn about the outlier in real time. This, according to experts, requires at least a day of analysis in a stationary laboratory, and not in the field.
Garbage PR
Why, after all, is Russia still managing to promote factories that, as you know, Europe refuses? There are several reasons for this.
First, the IGC supporters say that Europe is not abandoning them at all, despite the corresponding communiqué of the European Commission in 2017.
Indeed, in some countries of the European Union the situation has developed in such a way that it is now very difficult to abandon burning. Plants have been built, landfills (not foul-smelling dumps like Kuchino or Timokhovo, but high-tech facilities) are almost completely decommissioned, and there are no other ways to destroy waste that cannot be recycled.
Moreover, in Germany, more than 60% of household waste becomes recyclable. And the so-called tailings are sent for incineration.
This is the second loud slogan of our supporters of incineration. They say that the tailings go to the oven, and the rest goes for processing. But the reality is that in Russia the separate collection at the housing and communal services level remains at an almost primitive level due to ill-conceived logistics and low interest of operators.
The plant developers say they will do the sorting themselves. Constantinople attended the events, where representatives of RT-Invest spoke about it. However, from the conclusion of the independent environmental review of the incineration plant projects, carried out under the auspices of the ONF, published this spring, it is known that there are no indicators on sorting in the plant design.
And of course, the combustion lobbyists are exploiting the thesis that the people are tired of landfills. Everywhere people are dissatisfied and protest. But does this mean that it is the incineration of all waste that should be the alternative?
Tsargrad managed to find out that in the near future other waste management technologies that cannot yet be recycled may be presented to the public. And no one has canceled initiatives to reduce production and consumption, for example, disposable non-medical plastics and returnable containers.
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