The successful green path of Gilan needs continuity and culture building

The “Green Path – Clean Iran” project was implemented in order to clean the nature around the roads at the same time as all over the country for Nowruz days in Gilan. And has a collective responsibility.

According to the IRNA correspondent, about 58,000 tons of waste is produced daily in the country, among which the share of tourist provinces such as Gilan, Mazandaran and Golestan is very worrying; In these three provinces, about 6,000 tons of waste is normally produced daily, which sometimes increases up to three times during Nowruz, and this is a disaster for the environment in the north of the country because the leachate of this volume of waste, forest and nature. It destroys the region and ultimately affects the lives and health of the people by importing agricultural products.

Waste has been the biggest and most obvious challenge in Gilan for many years, so that now, according to the statistics provided, nearly 2,000 tons of waste is produced daily in urban and rural areas of Gilan, and among these, the highest daily waste production is in Rasht. During Nowruz, with the arrival of travelers and tourists, the amount of garbage produced in this city reaches about 250 tons, and all of them end up in the green heart of Saravan.

But apart from the issue of Harry and garbage waste and the problems caused by it and management, Gilan left Nowruz, which, unlike the last two years, faced a 40% increase in passengers and hosted about seven million passengers. The return of Gilan has certainly been pleasant for the occupational and economic groups of the province, but for the environment, the story is different.

The most important route for travelers in Gilan province, like other provinces in the country, are roads and highways, which are considered as part of tourist attractions in this region of the north of the country. Gilan roads, whether rural, urban, transportation, secondary or main, all have a stunning view that many travelers describe their leisure along the way.

However, the dumping of garbage on the side of injured roads has always been old and seemingly incurable, which not only tarnished the image of the province’s tourism, but also endangered its fragile environment. Among these, plastics and plastic bags are the most damaged because, unlike perishable food, these chemicals live for a long time without changing in nature.

For this purpose, in March of last year and on the eve of Nowruz, the “Green Path – Clean Iran” campaign was announced to all governors and senior and related provincial managers to remove uninvited waste from the beautiful roads of the country, especially Gilan, once and for all.

The Environmental Protection Organization, as the custodian of nature, launched the “Green Path – Clean Iran” project with the aim of implementing nature cleanup projects, especially in the suburbs of urban, rural and recreational and natural areas, and to implement it to all governors of 31 provinces. The country announced.

Now we have to see what effect this scan has had on the tourism and environment of the province after the tumultuous Nowruz 1401 and whether it has been implemented properly or not.

Scan the green path from run to result

In this regard, the director general of environmental protection of Gilan told IRNA: “Before the beginning of the new year, with the approval of the waste working group and the governor’s order, a nature cleanup program was implemented on the eve of spring with the efforts of all governors, districts and villagers.”

Reza Zamani added: 25 clean-up programs were carried out in the implementation of the Nowruz project and 250 banners with the content of warning, education and environmental attention were installed on transportation routes and busy routes. Also, about 40 environmental teams were deployed in the cities and about 20,000 garbage bags were distributed and with the cooperation of municipalities and institutions responsible for information brochures were published and distributed.

He stated: with all the measures taken after the end of the Nowruz holiday, the latest situation of the cities was checked, but unfortunately, despite the previous cleanups and cleanups during, the reports were not satisfactory.

The director general of Gilan environment added: “After a 2-year corona break, we once again saw a huge volume of tourists in the province and imagine if each tourist produces at least 500 grams of waste per day, what will be the unfavorable result for Gilan environment.”

Zamani continued by stating that the implementation of the Iran Green Path project was necessary in the midst of Nowruz, but several decades are not enough to solve this problem: The first step in the issue of waste management is the implementation of maximum separation programs; I hope that the day will come when every tourist will pay the environmental taxes of his trip.

The director general of environmental protection of Gilan, one of the missions of the environment, despite many problems, considered accurate and accurate information and said: without the participation of the media and the people, nothing will happen in the field of environment and environmental nodes without the help of the media and people is not opened.

As can be seen from the words of the Director General of Environment, the scanning of the green route in Gilan has been done according to the instructions, but considering the volume of about seven million passengers, it is more than the actions of the executive apparatus to beautify and get rid of garbage. Released is required.

Requirement of waste management of the missing link of tourism

The director of an environmental institute in Gilan also told IRNA: “Waste is the biggest challenge of the northern provinces, especially Gilan, with which Gilanians have been involved for many years, and unfortunately more than seven million tourists were accepted in the province while the management Waste is not a tourism requirement.

Nasim Tavafzadeh further said: “Activities in the direction of scanning the green-clean Iran route were evident in the province, so that the existence of information and environmental banners was very obvious and the presence of environmental teams and environmental officers to warn and educate clearly among tourists.” Seen; But with this volume of passenger acceptance, I do not think that doing these scans is a solution for waste management.

He continued: “With all the environmental measures, due to the high volume of tourists, the scattered garbage in the city and the natural landscapes were clearly visible; therefore, the implementation of such projects is only a positive step.”

Auxiliary media in the travel environment appendix

The social and environmental activist continued: We do not want to rebuild the wheel; Corona restricted tourism around the world, and requirements were designed as space improved and the tourism cycle revived.

According to Tawafzadeh, we should also formulate and implement instructions in the country and the province, as well as health requirements for tourism, because environmental protection and attention to waste should be taught to tourists as tourism requirements, and I think for this effort, There is little work done by the media and the responsible institutions.

The crisis of environmental destruction, which has become a serious and thought-provoking issue today, may be partially resolved with sustainable development. Sustainable development is a process that envisions a favorable future for human societies in which living conditions and resource use are harmless. Achieving the integrity, beauty, and stability of vital systems meets human needs; sustainable development is not a choice but the only way to save the earth for the future, and this choice requires more than words.

Now, the “Green Path – Clean Iran” was implemented in Gilan, but an IRNA reporter in an interview with the people and those in charge came to the conclusion that the implementation of this scan in Gilan may be positive, but it is not a cure.

Road waste is one dimension of Gilan’s waste problem

The director general of the Waste Management Office of the Environmental Protection Agency told IRNA: “Nowruz travel is a tradition that is common among us Iranians. The first year that the Corona virus spread in the country was a great opportunity for nature to breathe.”

Hassan Pasandideh, stating that the environment does not want to close businesses and the economy, said: “Now that opportunity is lost and compatriots can easily enter nature in groups of several people, which can have bad consequences for the environment in addition to health consequences.” One of the problems after the holidays is the large amount of waste that can be seen in forests, mountains, plains and rivers.

According to him, the average per capita waste production per person per day in normal conditions in the country is about 750 grams, but with the end of the year approaching and the start of house shaking, it sometimes increases to one kilogram per day.

The Director General of the Waste Management Office of the Environmental Protection Agency added: “In the last days of the year, one of the most important environmental challenges in the country is the distribution of waste, plastics, construction debris and other waste in nature, especially roadsides and transportation axes.” In addition to polluting the environment, it causes abnormalities and ugliness in these areas.

Pasandideh stated: “According to this, the Environmental Protection Organization, in order to make a national movement to clean the environment from garbage and waste, has launched a scan called the Green Iran-Clean Path and has notified all the governors of 31 provinces.”

The green path requires continuity and culture building

It seems that the mere implementation of a scan for the executive apparatus, even in the best possible way, can not solve a social problem or dilemma, especially in the field of environment, because the vote to solve such a problem requires social responsibility through culture.

Even if you put several people and garbage trucks on every kilometer of the road, which is not really possible, you can still see at every minute that garbage is coming from inside the cars or by families and people resting on the side of the street. Roads are flooded.

This shows that travel culture is a missing link in tourism, which, as the environmental activist mentioned above, is reported by the media, as well as penalties such as not wearing a seat belt.

Of course, in the meantime, the colorful role of the lack of waste collection infrastructure, such as garbage bins on the roads, should not be overlooked, which are so small that it can be said that there is no bin at all.

Gilan garbage problem beyond the roads

With all these interpretations, the problem of garbage is beyond the roads of the province, because even if it is collected from the streets, it will be released and stored in the green skirt of nature, which is now hosted by Saravan. Above, there was a brief reference to the origin, which of course is a very important issue in its place, but today the problem of waste in Gilan has gone beyond this and has stopped at the digestion station.

Making a incinerator is currently the only way out of the sky-high mountains that have remained on the ground to this day. The contract for the construction of a 600-ton waste incineration plant in Rasht was signed by the Rasht Municipality in 2013, which has had less than 20% physical progress after about a decade and passing two city councils. For this power plant, the ability to generate 38,000 megawatts of electricity per year is also predicted.

The total credit envisaged for the construction of the waste incineration plant in the 1992 contract was about $ 40 million. .

Rasht waste incineration plant, which is the largest of its kind in the country, seems to have given up hope to city managers and trustees, who are expected to breathe new life into the completion and construction of this power plant with the arrival of the judiciary. .

Ayatollah Parvaei, the representative of the people of Gilan in the Assembly of Leadership Experts, last year in a meeting to introduce and honor the new and former governors of Gilan province, which was held in the presence of the Minister of Interior, said that addressing environmental problems and Saravan waste is one of the demands of Gilan people; Also, a case was filed by the Gilan judiciary, determined to deal with underemployed officials, regarding the condition of the 600-ton waste incineration plant in Rasht and the contracts related to its construction, and all relevant issues including leachate treatment plant, organic fertilizer, waste incineration plant , Contracts and how to spend the budget allocated to related projects are also under judicial review.

Assadollah Abbasi, the governor of Gilan, before Nowruz in the meeting of the waste committee at the Saravan landfill in Rasht, referring to the leachate of the Saravan landfill in Rasht and its entry into the Zarjoub river and finally to Anzali wetland, noted: 15 rainy days daily Liters per second and on non-rainy days 6 liters per second leachate is poured into Zarjoub and finally into Anzali wetland.

The high representative of the government in Gilan province added: “We are the inheritors of the managers who inherited one million tons of garbage in this place and did not do anything to get out and ran forward.”
Abbasi stated: we are not looking for speech therapy, nothing has been done to solve the problem of Saravan Rasht landfill, if any action is taken, let them announce; The reason why I held a meeting in this place today is not that I had not seen this place before, but we should join hands in the true sense of jihad to get rid of this problem.
The issues raised are a part of the waste problem in Gilan, which seems to need provincial greatness and national support for the green province to regain its beautiful color.