Waste sorting acceptability with information provision

Abstract

To decrease the environmental degradation due to increasing amount of municipal solid waste the Ecology National Project was implemented in Russia. Its main goal is to increase recycling and liquidate all unauthorized landfills within the urban borders. While the key objective of the project is to ensure ecological improvement and to amend environmental situation in Russia its public acceptability and awareness is under question, especially in rural communities. The paper analyses rural waste management reform in small rural town in region (Sverdlovskay oblast). The main focus is on peoples' knowledge, acceptability and perceptions of the reform and its components, especially separate waste collection. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.