"Where does the garbage go in Bryansk?"

  The first thing I would like to deal with is the waste disposal system in Bryansk.

  There is a large landfill for municipal solid waste in our town. It is simply huge - 24 hectares. Garbage is brought here from all the Bryansk and nearby settlements. The small amount of waste was burned before. But this practice is now abandoned, since the products of combustion of garbage cause significant harm to the environment of the city, and increases the risk of fire in a large area. A few years ago sorting plant began to work. Due to it’s small capacity, the plant receives only a small portion of the collected garbage in the city, and in the re-use is only 20% of all incoming waste to the plant: paper, cardboard, plastic, glass. After sorting, they are sold to specialized companies as raw material for deep processing. The main part of the landfill debris brought here is dug into the ground.

There are prospects for improving environmental performance of the process of waste disposal in Bryansk and entrepreneurs and city officials are interested in it. But it's all in the future, for now, the main way of getting rid of garbage in Bryansk is burial. Based on this, and we consider our task of improving environmental performance of recyclable waste.

The magnitude of the harm caused by the nature of the land by this landfill depends not only on the amount of  garbage buried, but also on its composition. The amount of recyclable waste is difficult to reduce. But  it is possible to change the composition of the waste to minimize its negative impact on soil contamination. Doing it requires analyzing the decay periods of different materials that make up our waste, drawing conclusions about the preferred materials that decompose in the ground most quickly and safely, and giving this information to the residents of our city in a way that will convince them to take these findings to action .