Criminal liability should arise for any illegal dumps, according to deputies of legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. They suggested to their colleagues from the state Duma a bill that is based on a new article (article 24) of the Constitution that every citizen has the right to a healthy environment.
In the explanatory note the authors of the bill indicate that the country annually produces about 4 billion tons of waste of production and consumption. At the moment, the UK is responsible for the storage only of radioactive, bacteriological, chemical substances. MPs propose to Supplement this part with the words “recycling, disposal, placement, or other reference with production wastes and consumption”. The bill proposes to increase fines under part 1 of article 247 of the criminal code of up to 500 thousand rubles under part 2 — up to 3 million rubles, RBC. The regulations on the punishment of hard labour or imprisonment for up to five years, the authors decided to leave without changes.
The issue of unauthorized landfills is relevant for the Ural region. So, in the YANAO to the elimination of unauthorized dumps in the forests authorities allocate tens of millions of rubles, but activists continue to complain about the environment. In the Khanty in the dacha cooperative “Ryabinushka” near Surgut, unknown made an unauthorized landfill and making the waste disposal. Eyewitnesses said that he even used the machinery to dig and to equate all the waste. At the beginning of the year, residents of Yekaterinburg were advised to stay at home because of the glow of unauthorized landfills. Illegal dumping appeared on the North of the city a couple of years ago — every year, caustic waste fire.
