In Russia, proposed to recycle sanctions products for electricity

The former mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, suggested manufacturing fertilizer, biogas or electricity from sanction products.

“Any organic matter can be converted into electricity. I got electricity from processing leftover hay and straw, and processing cow manure. If you use manure from one and a half thousand cows, add leftover hay and straw to it, you can get so much electricity that it will be enough to light the barn and operate the milking equipment,” said the ex-mayor.

Yuri Luzhkov is currently engaged in agriculture in the Kaliningrad region. He is confident that the efficient processing of organic raw materials saves energy costs and benefits agriculture. The former mayor of Moscow recalled that in the Belgorod region there is an installation that processes meat waste into biogas.

It all started with the fact that Russia in August 2014, imposed an embargo on the import of products food from the countries that imposed sanctions on it because of the annexation of the Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine. In accordance with by decree of the Russian president Vladimir Putin, 6 August in Russia began to destroy the forbidden to import food. In one day only destroyed over three hundred tons of banned products.

More than three hundred thousand Russians have already protested over the destruction of fresh produce and have supported the transfer of them to citizens in need, by signing petition “Why should we destroy fresh European products that can feed veterans, pensioners, disabled people, families with many children, victims of natural disasters and others in need,” the petition said.

However, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian president, said that the authenticity of the signatures on the petition has not yet been verified, and the law itself has an exceptional goal: to stop smuggling, protect the economic interests of the country and, most importantly, it is a concern for the health of its citizens.