“Waste Management: The New Russian Waste Legislation and its Practical
Steps”
On 29 September 2016, the AEB Safety, Health, Environment & Security Committee held a
Conference “Waste management: the new Russian waste legislation and its
practical steps” dedicated to the implementation of the new waste
management legislation, presentations of current activities and projects by
companies.
The event was moderated by Mikhail Divovich,
Chairman of the Environmental Subcommittee, General Director, ECOTEAM. Ruslan
Kokarev, AEB Chief Operating Officer, opened the first session stating the
importance of the interaction between producers, importers, recycling companies
and other organisations dealing with waste management as well as summing up AEB
lobbying efforts on waste management legislation.
The administration of Dubna City presented its pilot
project on separate waste collection, Julien Thoeni, Counsellor, Head of
Economic Affairs, Finance and Science, Embassy of Switzerland in Russia, spoke
about possible approaches to the waste management and sample cases from
Switzerland. Michael Akim, Vice President in Russia, Belarus and Central
Asia, ABB, gave an overview of the product lifecycle and recycling issues. Artem
Rodin, Partner, Advocate, CMS, summed up the first session with his report
on the opportunities the new legislation gives.
The second session was devoted to practical questions
of implementation of the waste management legislation. New amendments to the
current waste management legislation were analysed by Olga Filchenkova,
Deputy Head of Unit on Economics of Environmental Management, Department on
Economics and Finances, Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology.
Best practices from producers and importers were
presented by several companies. Mark Pavlov, Sustainability Coordinator,
and Natalia Beneslavskaya, Sustainability Developer, IKEA, spoke on IKEA
projects. Elena Timokhina, Corporate Relations Manager, Russia and CIS,
Nokian Tyres, presented experience and main difficulties of the tire industry. Anton
Poverin, Supply Chain Team Leader, Bayer, intervened on current pilot
projects of the crop protection industry and took note of the import
cooperation with regional authorities (e.g. the Voronezh region) in this field.
Alexander Efimkin, General Director, ECOPOLE LLC, spoke on the new
project of management of collection and recycling of empty crop protection
product’s containers.
Recycling companies (Ekaterina Radionova,
General Director, KUUSAKOSKI RECYCLING, Patrick Boisits, Deputy General
Director, EVN Umwelt Alexander Nenonen, Development Manager,
Environmental Services, Lassia & Tikkanoja) presented their solutions of
handling waste. Stanislav Samokhin, Alternative Raw Materials and Fuels
Manager, Heidelbergcement Rus, made a presentation on the company’s current and
planned recycling projects. Andrey Fedorchuk, Technical Director,
LafargeHolcim, spoke on use of alternative fuel in cement industry and
ecologically safe approach used by the company.
The conference was attended by about 120 participants,
including representatives of state bodies (Ministry of natural resources and
environment), municipalities (Dubna), as well as manufacturers, importers,
processors and other interested organizations.
Participants stressed the importance of further
discussion of the new waste management legislation and sharing best practices.
News
on the event is available on the
AEB website HERE
The presentations are available for downloading HERE.
The photoreport can be found on AEB facebook page.
