A stinking business. Environmental issues, protests and big money in the waste business in Russia. OSW Commentary NUMBER 284 | 27.08.201
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2018

In recent months, Moscow oblast has seen a series of social protests against environmental problems caused by municipal waste landfills. The waste disposal sites are overloaded, lack adequate safeguards, emit toxic gases and contaminate the groundwater with harmful effluent. The situation is most severe in Moscow oblast because the capital city generates the largest volumes of waste; however, the problem itself extends beyond environmental concerns into the economic and social spheres. Waste man