This non-standard form of environmental education was chosen to once again draw attention to the need for hazardous waste recycling. In general, work on environmental education needs to be taken to a new level.

The first championship of the Moscow Region among educational institutions in desoldering electronic circuit boards was held in Lyubertsy

This non-standard form of environmental education was chosen to once again draw attention to the need for hazardous waste recycling. In general, work on environmental education needs to be taken to a new level, emphasized Vladislav Kholodkov, First Deputy Minister of Ecology and Nature Management of the Moscow Region.

The championship took place on the territory of the ecotechnopark of the Environmental Service Plant in Lyubertsy. It is here that end-of-life electronic and electrical equipment collected by the Environmental Management Foundation as part of the School of Recycling: Electronics environmental program is recycled. Ecotechnopark on the day of the championship was visited by Vladislav Kholodkov, First Deputy Minister of Ecology and Nature Management of the Moscow Region, Alexei Vyurkov, First Deputy Minister of Property Relations of the Moscow Region, Ilya Bronstein, First Deputy Minister of Education of the Moscow Region, and Irina Nazaryeva, First Deputy Head of the Lyubertsy Urban District.

“From a technological point of view, the collection and disposal of electronic equipment is a complex and time-consuming procedure,” said Vladislav Kholodkov. – Some devices contain elements that can adversely affect the environment, so their disposal is subject to special requirements, which students of technical specialties have met today. Together with the Ministry of Education of the Moscow Region, we agreed to develop an environmental program for its further implementation in the curricula of schools in the region. This measure will allow to actively develop the eco-consciousness of future specialists and project existing experience in the field of environmental protection onto them.”

The championship was attended by students of technical schools and colleges from Reutov, Lyubertsy, Moscow, Zhukovsky, Ramenskoye, Shchelkovo. The task of the guys was to desolder the boards for speed, this is one of the stages of electronics processing. Each of the three team members was given 15 minutes to work. Participants were judged by the co-organizers of the championship, representatives of the computer company Nyx – by the number, complexity and safety of soldered parts.

The first place was taken by the Lyubertsy College named after. Yu.A. Gagarin with a score of 303 details, in second place – College of Communications No. 54 Moscow (225 details), in third – Shchelkovsky College SP No. 2 (216 details). The winners received fitness bracelets, power banks and electronic dictionaries as gifts from the Environmental Management Fund and the Nix Company.

Representatives of the Government of the Moscow Region and the urban district of Lyubertsy assessed the prospects for the development of the hazardous waste processing industry using the example of an ecotechnopark. In particular, Vladislav Kholodkov noted the need to introduce separate collection of industrial waste in the region. The guests of the plant were presented with a universal model for the separate collection of hazardous waste at enterprises.

The Environmental Service Plant recycles 15 waste groups, including used oil products, oil and fuel filters, tires, used electronics. At the same time, the products obtained as a result of processing at one site of the eco-technopark are used at other sites. This is what makes the ecotechnopark format effective.

The guests were shown the resulting processed products. From the old oil, for example, components of drilling fluids are obtained. From old tires – chips, from which a wide variety of rubber coatings are later produced, and in Kazakhstan, for example, tubes for drip irrigation. From electronics – ABS plastic agglomerates, which are later used in the production of fittings for window sills, coat hangers, etc.

Aleksey Vyurkov said that two years ago the Ministry of Moscow Property supported the “School of Disposal: Electronics” campaign and drew the attention of state and municipal institutions to the gratuitous disposal of electronics. And today, for the first time, medical institutions of the Moscow region have joined the recycling program. The first batch of medical equipment from Kolomna came to the site – 1006 units of used medical equipment were received for processing.

A unique museum of vintage electronic and household appliances has been organized on the territory of the ecotechnopark. Here is the first monoblock Videoton VDT ​​52100, produced in socialist Hungary since 1978, and the famous Spidola radio receivers of the 1980s, one even with a dedicatory inscription.