Overview
- An order signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on November 10 authorizes additional subsidies for Mari El, Mordovia, Dagestan and Kurgan Oblast.
- The funding backs six regional projects to build or upgrade facilities for processing, sorting, neutralizing and disposing of municipal solid waste.
- Subsidies are issued on a co-financing basis to regions that filed applications under the federal Economy of the Circular Cycle project within the Environmental Wellbeing national program.
- The government says the measure supports a comprehensive waste-management system to expand sorting and recycling and to reduce landfill volumes.
- Kurgan authorities say their project includes about 2 billion rubles in federal support toward a 3.8 billion ruble, 160,000‑ton‑per‑year sorting complex with composting, slated to start operations in September 2027, with a landfill planned for November 2029.