About 52.5% of Russian residents classify household waste. This was reported by RIAMO based on the results of an annual survey conducted by the Russian Environmental Executive Agency (REO).
It turned out that 26% of respondents put their trash in two containers – recyclables and mixed trash. Another 26.4% of respondents practice fractional sorting, such as paper, glass, aluminum cans and the like.
The most active people are women (56%), residents of cities with a population of over a million (61%), as well as people between 35 and 54 years old (56–57%).
“We are actively carrying out environmental education and developing people's separate waste collection skills. We are confident that over time, more and more Russians will participate in waste separation at home,” said the REO press service.
Leading in the percentage of residents classifying waste are Moscow region (69%), Lipetsk region (68%), Moscow (66%), Kherson region (65%), Bashkiria (64%), Perm region (62%), Karelia (62%), St. Petersburg (61%), as well as the Sakhalin and Chelyabinsk regions (61% each).
In early February, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation Denis Butsaev said that REO has now agreed on 59 regional programs for the transition to a circular economy.
Regional programs are comprehensive documents reflecting policies on the participation of secondary resources in economic circulation and the replacement of primary raw materials.
Previously it was known that in Russia the collection of payments for waste removal exceeded 96%.
