Vladivostok colpita dall’emergenza rifiuti. 30 regioni a rischio collasso dei rifiuti per arretrati salariali dei netturbini. (Traduzione nei commenti)

>Vladivostok, the second most populous city in the Far East, is drowning in garbage. People report “mountains of plastic bags with waste that have not been collected for several days.” The problem got worse in mid-December after a fire at a landfill site and hasn’t gotten any better since. Even though Primorsky Ecological Operator (PEO) promised to use more garbage trucks to haul away the trash, the situation still hasn’t been fixed. In early January, the prosecutor’s office responded to complaints from residents, identifying violations of waste collection deadlines “at a number of container sites, which led to littering and complaints from residents.”

>For its part, PEO reported a large number of cases where access to containers was blocked by parked cars. In addition, during the New Year holidays, there was a “significant excess of the average daily tonnage of waste,” the company explained. In addition, the authorities cited heavy snowfall in the region, which prevented the timely removal of garbage. However, according to Dmitry Burlaka, director of the New City Environmental Company, the main reason for the disruptions is that PEO, as the regional waste management operator, systematically delays payment for the work of garbage trucks and “does not pay” transporters for months, which prevents companies from operating normally.

>According to him, debts to contractors in Vladivostok and the region range from 2 to 12 million rubles, with a number of companies still not having been paid for work done in September, October, and November. Burlaka emphasized that, despite this, citizens continue to pay for waste collection, and PEO receives a monthly regional subsidy.

>Since the start of the “garbage reform” announced by President Vladimir Putin in 2019, delays in payments to carriers have become constant, as Burlaka noted. Due to a lack of money, companies have to take out loans, postpone equipment repairs, reduce the number of routes, and sometimes refuse to work in entire districts in order to avoid accumulating debts, he explained.

>The carriers have filed a collective complaint with the prosecutor’s office. If the situation does not change, the garbage collapse in Vladivostok will continue, as further equipment breakdowns and waste collection stoppages are inevitable, they stressed.

>In October 2025, the Omsk Region Legislative Assembly submitted a draft law to the State Duma stating that 30 regions of Russia could experience a garbage collapse due to an acute shortage of landfills. They also proposed extending the operating life of unauthorized landfills for another three years.

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Sad to hear about garbage problems in a country like that! /s

Kremlin has got hit by “garbage crisis” if we look what s*it comes out of their mouths.

Vladivostok not even in Europe. It’s in Russia.

Russian ideology is to live in shit yourself, and make everyone else live in shit as well