Medvedev Says to Cash In on Kyoto

Satellites could monitor where your rubbish ends up under a new initiative supported by President Dmitry Medvedev. The plan is to tackle the growing problem of illegal landfill sites — the latest initiative in the government’s growing interest in trash. “The very high profitability of the landfill business and its criminalization is hindering the development of recycling,” Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov told a meeting of the government’s modernization committee at Medvedev’s […]