City to Get Waste Points
Published: August 22, 2012 (Issue # 1723)
Three stations to collect hazardous waste will open their doors in St. Petersburg in September, the city’s Nature Use, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety Committee said, Interfax reported.
The test project will be conducted in the city’s Pushkinsky, Frunzensky and Nevsky districts in September and October. They will be open every other day in the mornings and evenings.
In either November or December these stations will be moved to the Kalininsky, Primorsky and Vyborgsky districts.
The stations’ exact addresses are currently under discussion.
The cost of the three stations totals 2.6 million rubles ($81,000). It will cost four million rubles ($124,600) to service the stations over a four-month period.
The types of hazardous waste that will be accepted include mercury light bulbs, batteries, medical thermometers, chemical waste, car batteries, tires and various medicines.