“At 20% we have to clean the air in 12 cities, but this does not say that we will work only in these cities. We will work throughout the Russian Federation, we just started this large-scale project, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

Kobylkin noted that the problem of air pollution is, first of all, relevant for industrial centers.

The minister made a corresponding statement during his speech at a meeting with participants in the Mashuk North Caucasus Youth Forum.

Earlier, the 360 ​​television channel reported that in the Moscow Region the number of container sites required to ensure separate collection of garbage almost doubled.