OREANDA-NEWS. The Chelyabinsk Regional Division of the Federal Service on Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor) has approved a new environmental project developed by OJSC Chelyabinskgorgaz (a subdivision of the Gazeks gas holding company) and setting up waste production standards and quotas for waste placement for the next five years. This project is developed in accordance with the requirements of the Russian environmental legislation in order to determine the overall quantity and types of industrial and consumer waste produced by an enterprise, account for such waste, and substantiate the permissibility and possibility for placing such waste on the enterprise's premises.

The inventory of Chelyabinskgorgaz-generated waste has been made with account for the technological specifics of the enterprise, as well as Rostekhnadzor's recent requirements. For example, the Chelyabinsk Regional Hygiene and Epidemiology Centre performed laboratory tests of mud generated by motor vehicles and street sweeps to determine the class of waste hazard. Construction waste is now broken down by components.

Placing wastes in excess of an enterprise's quota will cost the enterprise five times more expensive, in accordance with the current legislation. Thus, the implementation of the project stimulates better efficiency in material use and cutting down industrial waste quantities.  This, in turn, makes it possible to reduce the impact of the enterprise's activity on the city's environment.

Five hundred and fifteen point three tonnes a year is the quota for placing industrial waste established for Chelyabinskgorgaz until 10 June, 2008. As before, Chelyabinskgorgaz will every year submit to the Chelyabinsk Regional Division of Rostekhnadzor a technical report on the inalterability of its process, materials used, and waste generated, as well as on waste placement by specialist enterprises.