Mr.Berube there is a link to this page called resource pictures. There you will find all the pictures for this unit.

Recycling in Russia

Recycling in Russia has never really been an issue. Trash was simply dumped into specially designated areas outside the city. Today there plan has not changed much. Although today such dumping grounds are called ordnance yards and trash is often being referred to as hard domestic waste.

The mounts of trash can evolve into carbon monoxide, methane and other toxins. More so, pathogenic bacteria and disease-transmitting rodents only make the situation worse. Other countries learned to turn trash into real money. In Russia however, recycling has a long way to go before it will ever be turned into business.

There are only four recycling facilities and combustion plants in Russia. According to State Sanitary Control, those combustion plants are practically all dead. The thing is, they use foreign technologies that do not work in our country. More often the problem is solved in the following way: trash simply gets dumped in the nearest forest or even better, by some freeway.

Nearly 7 billion tons! Of domestic waste is accumulated in Russia annually; 6 million tons—in Moscow's region (up to 350kg of trash per person per year).

Resource Pressure

Most of Russias pressure comes from their fuel distribution. Being the second largest oil distributer in the world Russia must make sure the oil gets to all its destinations and also makes sure that nothing happens to it. If there is a shortage that will be another crisis with the country.
There is also major pressure with Russias forestry. In some areas there have been floods destroying much of the forest. People in russia also seek out a forest life and destroy trees building homes in that area.

Mining in Russia

Russia possesses a large amount of the world's mineral resources and in 2000 it said that Russia possed 14% of the worlds minerals.
The most significant regions for mining are Siberia, particularly East Siberia, for cobalt, columbium (niobium), copper ), gold, iron ore, lead, molybdenum, nickel, tin, tungsten, zinc, asbestos, diamond, fluorspar, mica, and talc. The Kola Peninsula, for cobalt, columbium, copper, nickel, rare-earth metals, phosphate, and tantalum. North Caucasus copper, lead, molybdenum, tungsten, and zinc. The Russian Far East gold, lead, silver, tin, tungsten, and zinc. The Urals, with bauxite, beryllium, cobalt, copper, iron ore, lead, magnesite, nickel, titanium, vanadium, zinc, asbestos, bismuth, potash, soda ash, talc, and vermiculite. The region near the Arctic Circle cobalt, gold, mercury, nickel, tin, phosphate, and uranium.

Resource Management

In some parts of Russia there is a plan for resource management. There is a plan for the forests of Russia the plan is: the plan aims at improving the integration of forest resource use in Russia by combining commercial and social forest use, nature protection and ecotourism. The secondary objective is to increase public awareness building in nature and forest use and in conservation.
Russia plan with there oil is to export as much as they can because of todays high prices. Being second largest oil distributer it can distribute a lot of oil. It is estimated that Russia will make around 90 billion dollars from exporting oil.

Export and Import Partners

Russia has many countries for exporting and importing resources they are:

Export partners:
Netherlands 10.3%, Germany 8.3%, Italy 7.9%, China 5.5%, Ukraine 5.2%, Turkey 4.5%, Switzerland 4.4%
There total amout of exports is $317.6 billion

Import partners:
Germany 13.6%, Ukraine 8%, China 7.4%, Japan 6%, Belarus 4.7%, US 4.7%, Italy 4.6%, South Korea 4.1%
There total amount of imports is $171.5 billion

Electric Power

Russia's power is formed in four places regular power, wind, nuclear, and hydro electric. Some of their power is exported and they have imported power also.
Electricity - production:
952.4 billion kWh
Electricity - consumption:
940 billion kWh
Electricity - exports:
22.3 billion kWh
Electricity - imports:
9.9 billion kWh