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A comprehensive solution to the problem of waste collection and recycling requires change on all fronts: the public must be motivated to collect waste separately and recycling facilities must be built for waste that can be recycled in demand.
But the introduction of separate waste collection must be differentiated regionally and according to need.
Before we start collecting glass, aluminium cans, waste paper, plastic bottles etc., for example in St. Petersburg, we have to figure out how to sort it all in households, where to store it, how to organise collection and transport, who will take it away and where, what will happen to it, what logistics linkages exist to the recycling facilities.
In addition, the need for processing capacity varies greatly from region to region. For example, Yakutia or the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug may have no need for recycling of any secondary resource at all: they have lower population density and accumulate less waste than in the European part of Russia, waste morphology is different, and there is simply no capacity.
This is why the strategy for introducing recycling facilities in different regions has to be differentiated: is there a need for separate collection or not? If there is, then what kind — fractional or two-flow? And so on.
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