MOSCOW, Aug 4 Russian environmental operator will create digital models of 20 landfills located in the LPR, DPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions using ground-based laser scanning, another 80 landfills in 37 regions of Russia will be digitized using drones, the company said.
«Monitoring of MSW infrastructure facilities using unmanned aerial vehicles is by far the most effective tool for obtaining objective data quickly. In connection with this, the REO will continue and expand the project in 2023 — three-dimensional digital models of another 100 landfills will be created, 20 of them are located in the LPR, DPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, where ground laser scanning will be carried out. For the remaining 80 ranges, air monitoring will be carried out,» Aleksey Burov, Deputy Director General for Digitalization of the REO, told reporters.
As the company noted, in 2022 REO built 3D models of 496 landfills (there are about 900 in Russia in total) and estimated their residual capacity, recording more than three thousand violations. Among them are smoldering, fires, waste exiting the boundaries of the site, the absence of fencing and bypass channels along the perimeter of the facility, and others.
The «garbage» reform began in Russia on January 1, 2019. The key task of the REO, created in the same year, is to oversee the reform and form an integrated system for handling municipal solid waste in Russia.