Press Release, 21.03.2019

Alexander Goncharenko, leader of the Altai branch of Yabloko, sent appeals to Ivan Gilev, Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Altai Territory, as well as to Vladimir Popryadukhin, regional Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, asking them to answer a number of questions about the “garbage reform” that worried residents of the region.

Alexander Goncharenko stressed that in the Altai Territory faced a number of difficulties associated with the implementation of the “garbage reform”, in particular with the schedule of garbage collection, lack of containers and container platforms in rural areas, as well as tariffs set for garbage collection, which differ by more than three times as of different regional operators.

“We are planning to take the course of the “reform” in the Altai Territory under our control and will help the residents of the region to protect their rights with all the available constitutional forms,” the Chairman of the regional branch said.

Earlier, the Altai branch of Yabloko held picketing in Barnaul, the capital of the region, against the “garbage reform”.

Yabloko is in favour of separate garbage collection and believes that the “garbage reform” in the form in which it is being carried out now is not effective. At the past Yabloko’s Federal Council in December 2018, the party proposed an alternative waste management programme “Clean Russia”. It will allow by 2030 to recycle up to 70 per cent of household waste, reduce the amount of garbage being buried at  landfills by 80 per cent and create more than 250,000 jobs.