Suspension of the work of the largest landfill in St. Petersburg "Novoselki" may aggravate the garbage crisis in the north of the city. According to the newspaper Delovoy Peterburg, on April 14, 2017, Rosprirodnadzor withdrew the license for the storage of any waste from the "MPBO-2 Plant", which operates Novoselki,. As a result, the polygon was closed. Earlier, during the inspection of the Ministry of Natural Resources, it was found out that the license for storage of I-IV hazard wastes of the enterprise had expired two years ago, but to accept other garbage the lack of this license allowed. In the Rosprirodnadzor, the fact of revoking the license is denied. Since there are no other waste storage options in this area, the situation for the regulator is patchy.
Another important moment in the life of the "garbage business" - in 2017, St. Petersburg and Leningrad region, it is necessary to choose a regional operator for waste disposal. The volume of the market for the two subjects of the federation is estimated at 85 billion rubles annually.
In the northern capital, this business has always dealt with major players, including those associated with criminals. In 2006, the largest waste processing plant in the city of ZAO "Experimental Plant MPBO" as a result of the raider seizure turned into GUP "Plant MPBO-2". Lead the new enterprise was the authoritative Georgian businessman Yuri Ordzhonikidze. The protection of all facilities of the plant is handled by the company "Talion", owned by its close friend Alexander Ebralidze. Two more of his firms are permanent contractors of the "MPBO-2 Plant", receiving for their services annually almost half a billion rubles.
In 2017, in connection with the reform of the entire storage and recycling system, the Georgian diaspora has competitors. Gennady Timchenko (Tehnoresurs), Andrei Berezin (OAO UKOOLO - daughter of KUGI Leningrad region), Anatoly Yazev (JSC "Autopark No. 1 Spetstrans" - the largest garbage removal operator in St. Petersburg) showed interest in the garbage issue.. The future struggle for 85 billion can be serious. Obviously, the dissemination of conflicting information about the city's largest landfill is just the first step in this confrontation.
Simple residents of St. Petersburg have no particular joy from the future billions of garbage scavengers, they continue to suffer from the terrible smell that spreads from "Novoselok". The landfill was planned to be closed in 2012, but so far no real steps have been taken for this. After the construction of a municipal waste-processing plant broke down in 2014, the governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko never managed to come to an agreement with the Leningrad region on allocating land for new landfills for urban garbage.
By the way, environmentalists strongly recommend residents of the northern regions of St. Petersburg to demand moral compensation from the city administration in a judicial order, because it is because of inaction of the authorities that citizens are forced to inhale the "scents" of the landfill all year round.
It is possible that the current hype around the "Novoselok" will help move the process from the dead end. Disadvantages of the territorial scheme for waste management in St. Petersburg have already attracted the attention of experts of the "All-Russian People's Front". Recall that 2017 in Russia is called the Year of Ecology, during which President Vladimir Putin called on "to deal with the accumulated waste, to eliminate the largest deposits of debris that literally poison people's lives".