Why can’t you burn last year’s grass in the spring

Askhat Kayumov, ecologist, chairman of the board of the Dront eco-center:

– First of all, burning fallen leaves in settlements is prohibited by fire safety rules and improvement rules. It’s illegal. This is the first position.

The second position is harmful to those living organisms on which this foliage lies. Because you and I are depriving the soil of nutrients. The foliage rots, it is eaten by earthworms, passed through the intestinal tract, and a soil suitable for plants is obtained. If it does not rot and worms do not process it, nutrients do not enter the soil and the plants simply have nothing to eat.

The third position is harmful for the residents of these settlements themselves. In the city, plants actively absorb harmful substances from the air, especially where there is industry, and accumulate them. When we set them on fire, we release it all into the air again so you can breathe it. That is, the plants collected all this rubbish, they saved us from it, and we set fire to the foliage in order to get it again in full.

That is, for all positions – both legal and environmental – this should not be done.

And then there is the question of the budget: leaves are raked and spent on this budget money – on rakes and on a rake. Do not deprive people of this work.