The citizens question on what basis the presidential
administration redirected their signatures, addressed personally to
the president of the Russian Federation, to the Ministry of Natural
Resources, which haven't got any mandate to prepare legislation
bills in the case.
5th February 2009, Greenpeace Russia and the initiative groups
in Moscow transferred above 112 000 signatures of Russian citizens
against further construction of more incineration complexes. Two
boxes of signatures were transfered to the presidential
administration by
the Garbage Bin Man - the campaign figure of "marathon
STOPMSZ.ru". The marathon, as well as the Garbage Bin Man, was
running for a month collecting the 112 520 signatures from
inhabitants of Moscow, St.-Petersburg, Surgut, Tyumen, Kazan,
Voronezh, Irkutsk, Nizhni Novgorod and other big cities of Russia.
The petition propose a moratorium on further construction of new
incineration complexes and recommend the Russian Government to
immediately turn the policies in direction of development in the
field of waste sorting and recycling.
Last year, president Medvedev himself declared that «the sector
of clean technologies will not take place without new decisions on
the issues of recycling and waste sorting». Since that moment a
year have gone and the wishes expressed by the president remains
non-realized. A few months after the presidents declaration the
mayor of Moscow Yuriy Luzhkov gave green light for construction of
six new incineration plants (МСЗ). The waste policy conduct of
Moscow's mayor has also been adopted by the Mayor of St.-Petersburg
V. Matvienko, supporting the initiative of the government to erect
four new incineration plants in the northern capital. Corresponding
construction plans of incineration plants - in order to solve the
waste problems by more incineration - are known from the
municipalities of Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk, Yakutsk and Nizhniy
Novgorod.
The only existing short-term alternative to the ecological
disaster of thoughtless mass incineration of waste from Russian
households and industries would be an implementation of the
recycling thoughts presented by the Russian president last
year.