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<span style="color: windowtext;">The results of the Republic of Tatarstan's <i>Kind</i> <i>Tatarstan</i> Award have just been unveiled in Kazan. Renat Nigmatullin, an engineer at Nizhnekamskneftekhim, became the award’s winner in the <i>Eco-Volunteer of the Year </i>category.</span>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">The environmental project <i>Eco-Tournament with a Purpose</i> was initiated in 2023 to explain recycling principles to children and to get them involved in separate waste collection through a variety of game-based and hands-on activities. The project has been expanding in several directions. As part of one of them, special containers for collecting plastic bottle caps have been installed at local schools (4 containers were originally installed in 2023, with plans to increase their number to 27 by 2025).</span>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">The project also helps organize checkers tournaments where plastic caps are used as the game pieces (20 tournaments have been held since the project's launch). Those who end up getting eliminated from the tournament, are offered to attend various master classes. In 2023, for example, children were taught to make origami from scrap paper, and in 2024 they learned how to make keychains using a 3D printer. This way, school students get acquainted with different ways of repurposing various types of otherwise wasted materials.</span>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">In 2025, in response to the question of <i>What do we do with the bottles?</i>, Nigmatullin assembled a small-sized machine, some parts of which he printed himself. The machine turns a plastic bottle into filament, the type of thread used in 3D printing. This allows the students to see the entire recycling path first-hand: from a bottle to a new product they can hold in their hands.</span>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Since the project's launch, schoolchildren and local residents have collected nearly 1.5 tons worth of plastic caps. These volumes have been rising each year: 179 kilograms got collected in the first year, with 570 kilograms in the second, and about 700 kilograms in just the first six months of the current year. Proceeds from turning the caps in for recycling are directed to helping animals shelters: since 2023, 615 kilograms of dry pet food have been donated to these establishments.</span>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">The project has been expanding dynamically thanks to the support of more than 40 facility employees. On three occasions, it has received grants from SIBUR's <i>Formula for Good Deeds</i> social investment program. The <i>Eco-Tournament with a Purpose</i> has become an environmental partner of a number of city-wide events, including the <i>Sabantuy</i> festival, matches played by the <i>Neftkhimik</i> hockey and football clubs, as well as educational and family fests.</span>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Nigmatullin has also been an active participant of the city's sporting events. He is a marathon runner and has competed in races held in Moscow, St. Petersburg (including the <i>White Nights</i> marathon), Kazan, and Nizhnekamsk. In a single season, he runs as much as 1,500 kilometers, while also cheering his colleagues during races, and advocating an active lifestyle.</span>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext;">Oleg Grishakov, Head of Ecology at Nizhnekamskneftekhim</span></b><i><span style="color: windowtext;">: </span></i> <br>
<i><span style="color: windowtext;">“At Nizhnekamskneftekhim, we have been investing in environmental programs on a regular basis: we retrofit our equipment, implement measures to reduce our environmental impact, develop fish restocking programs</span></i><span style="color: windowtext;">. <i>However, our employees’ initiatives play a uniquely special role. They help advance the environmental culture in our city where our people lead by example. Renat Nigmatullin's project shows how engineering knowledge can be converted into a recycling format that is understandable to and accessible for school students. This is the kind of activity that helps people develop consistent eco habits.”</i></span>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext;">Stanislav Martynenko, Head of Government Relations for SIBUR in Tatarstan:</span></b> <br>
<i><span style="color: windowtext;">“We have always been supportive of initiatives that help us develop our city and rally its residents around a common cause. In 2025, with support from</span></i><span style="color: windowtext;"> SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds<i> social investment program</i>, <i>eight volunteering projects initiated by Nizhnekamskneftekhim employees are being implemented here. These include: the </i>Eco-Tournament with a Purpose<i>, </i>Our Children Must Become Great People<i>, </i>Young Ornithologist<i>, </i>Together with Mom<i>, and a few others. These are the projects that provide local residents with tangible benefits and get them involved in social life.”</i></span>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext;">Renat Nigmatullin, engineer at Nizhnekamskneftekhim:</span></b> <br>
<i><span style="color: windowtext;">“I started volunteering back in 2018, when, during the ceremony of reinterment of my great-grandfather’s remains in Smolensk Oblast, I had my first encounter with search volunteers, the ones who do important things for free. It was then that I decided that I, too, wanted to be like them. I started by participating in SIBUR's corporate events including clean-up days, environmental campaigns, cleanups on the banks of the Kama. As time went by, I started to come up with initiatives of my own. When you work with children, you start to realize that for them it's important not only to listen, but also to try things. That’s why everything in our eco-tournaments is built around the concept of hands-on experience. We sort the caps together, start up the machine together, print the first keychains together, and travel to the animal shelters together. And at some point the child would be able to say: 'Now I do understand what all of this is for.' That's what's really worth working for.”</span></i>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Launched in 2021, the <i>Kind Tatarstan</i> Award celebrates achievements of volunteers who have made a material contribution to the development of the volunteering movement in the republic. The award is co-organized by the Ministry for Youth Affairs of Tatarstan and the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization <i>Volunteering Information and Resource Center</i>. 2025 saw the number of applications competing for the award reach a record 517 entries from across 45 municipalities.</span>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">In 2024, SIBUR's Nizhnekamsk facility came first in the <i>Corporate Volunteering – Large Business</i> category. From 2022 to 2024, Nizhnekamsk saw 19 volunteering initiatives getting implemented with support from SIBUR's <i>Formula for Good Deeds</i> social investment program, with 4,500 employees joining the corporate <i>People Changing the World</i> movement.</span>
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<i><span style="color: windowtext;">Source</span></i><i><span style="color: windowtext;">: </span></i><a href="https://kazanfirst.ru/news/inzhener-nknh-stal-volontyorom-goda-v-sfere-ekologii-v-premii-dobryj-tata"><i>https://kazanfirst.ru/news/inzhener-nknh-stal-volontyorom-goda-v-sfere-ekologii-v-premii-dobryj-tata</i></a><i>....</i>
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The results of the Republic of Tatarstan's Kind Tatarstan Award have just been unveiled in Kazan. Renat Nigmatullin, an engineer at Nizhnekamskneftekhim, became the award’s winner in the Eco-Volunteer of the Year category.
The environmental project Eco-Tournament with a Purpose was initiated in 2023 to explain recycling principles to children and to get them involved in separate waste collection through a variety of game-based and hands-on activities. The project has been expanding in several directions. As part of one of them, special containers for collecting plastic bottle caps have been installed at local schools (4 containers were originally installed in 2023, with plans to increase their number to 27 by 2025).
The project also helps organize checkers tournaments where plastic caps are used as the game pieces (20 tournaments have been held since the project's launch). Those who end up getting eliminated from the tournament, are offered to attend various master classes. In 2023, for example, children were taught to make origami from scrap paper, and in 2024 they learned how to make keychains using a 3D printer. This way, school students get acquainted with different ways of repurposing various types of otherwise wasted materials.
In 2025, in response to the question of What do we do with the bottles?, Nigmatullin assembled a small-sized machine, some parts of which he printed himself. The machine turns a plastic bottle into filament, the type of thread used in 3D printing. This allows the students to see the entire recycling path first-hand: from a bottle to a new product they can hold in their hands.
Since the project's launch, schoolchildren and local residents have collected nearly 1.5 tons worth of plastic caps. These volumes have been rising each year: 179 kilograms got collected in the first year, with 570 kilograms in the second, and about 700 kilograms in just the first six months of the current year. Proceeds from turning the caps in for recycling are directed to helping animals shelters: since 2023, 615 kilograms of dry pet food have been donated to these establishments.
The project has been expanding dynamically thanks to the support of more than 40 facility employees. On three occasions, it has received grants from SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program. The Eco-Tournament with a Purpose has become an environmental partner of a number of city-wide events, including the Sabantuy festival, matches played by the Neftkhimik hockey and football clubs, as well as educational and family fests.
Nigmatullin has also been an active participant of the city's sporting events. He is a marathon runner and has competed in races held in Moscow, St. Petersburg (including the White Nights marathon), Kazan, and Nizhnekamsk. In a single season, he runs as much as 1,500 kilometers, while also cheering his colleagues during races, and advocating an active lifestyle.
Oleg Grishakov, Head of Ecology at Nizhnekamskneftekhim:
“At Nizhnekamskneftekhim, we have been investing in environmental programs on a regular basis: we retrofit our equipment, implement measures to reduce our environmental impact, develop fish restocking programs. However, our employees’ initiatives play a uniquely special role. They help advance the environmental culture in our city where our people lead by example. Renat Nigmatullin's project shows how engineering knowledge can be converted into a recycling format that is understandable to and accessible for school students. This is the kind of activity that helps people develop consistent eco habits.”
Stanislav Martynenko, Head of Government Relations for SIBUR in Tatarstan:
“We have always been supportive of initiatives that help us develop our city and rally its residents around a common cause. In 2025, with support from SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program, eight volunteering projects initiated by Nizhnekamskneftekhim employees are being implemented here. These include: the Eco-Tournament with a Purpose, Our Children Must Become Great People, Young Ornithologist, Together with Mom, and a few others. These are the projects that provide local residents with tangible benefits and get them involved in social life.”
Renat Nigmatullin, engineer at Nizhnekamskneftekhim:
“I started volunteering back in 2018, when, during the ceremony of reinterment of my great-grandfather’s remains in Smolensk Oblast, I had my first encounter with search volunteers, the ones who do important things for free. It was then that I decided that I, too, wanted to be like them. I started by participating in SIBUR's corporate events including clean-up days, environmental campaigns, cleanups on the banks of the Kama. As time went by, I started to come up with initiatives of my own. When you work with children, you start to realize that for them it's important not only to listen, but also to try things. That’s why everything in our eco-tournaments is built around the concept of hands-on experience. We sort the caps together, start up the machine together, print the first keychains together, and travel to the animal shelters together. And at some point the child would be able to say: 'Now I do understand what all of this is for.' That's what's really worth working for.”
Launched in 2021, the Kind Tatarstan Award celebrates achievements of volunteers who have made a material contribution to the development of the volunteering movement in the republic. The award is co-organized by the Ministry for Youth Affairs of Tatarstan and the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization Volunteering Information and Resource Center. 2025 saw the number of applications competing for the award reach a record 517 entries from across 45 municipalities.
In 2024, SIBUR's Nizhnekamsk facility came first in the Corporate Volunteering – Large Business category. From 2022 to 2024, Nizhnekamsk saw 19 volunteering initiatives getting implemented with support from SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program, with 4,500 employees joining the corporate People Changing the World movement.
Source: https://kazanfirst.ru/news/inzhener-nknh-stal-volontyorom-goda-v-sfere-ekologii-v-premii-dobryj-tata....
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The environmental project Eco-Tournament with a Purpose was initiated in 2023 to explain recycling principles to children and to get them involved in separate waste collection through a variety of game-based and hands-on activities. The project has been expanding in several directions. As part of one of them, special containers for collecting plastic bottle caps have been installed at local schools (4 containers were originally installed in 2023, with plans to increase their number to 27 by 2025).
The project also helps organize checkers tournaments where plastic caps are used as the game pieces (20 tournaments have been held since the project's launch). Those who end up getting eliminated from the tournament, are offered to attend various master classes. In 2023, for example, children were taught to make origami from scrap paper, and in 2024 they learned how to make keychains using a 3D printer. This way, school students get acquainted with different ways of repurposing various types of otherwise wasted materials.
In 2025, in response to the question of What do we do with the bottles?, Nigmatullin assembled a small-sized machine, some parts of which he printed himself. The machine turns a plastic bottle into filament, the type of thread used in 3D printing. This allows the students to see the entire recycling path first-hand: from a bottle to a new product they can hold in their hands.
Since the project's launch, schoolchildren and local residents have collected nearly 1.5 tons worth of plastic caps. These volumes have been rising each year: 179 kilograms got collected in the first year, with 570 kilograms in the second, and about 700 kilograms in just the first six months of the current year. Proceeds from turning the caps in for recycling are directed to helping animals shelters: since 2023, 615 kilograms of dry pet food have been donated to these establishments.
The project has been expanding dynamically thanks to the support of more than 40 facility employees. On three occasions, it has received grants from SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program. The Eco-Tournament with a Purpose has become an environmental partner of a number of city-wide events, including the Sabantuy festival, matches played by the Neftkhimik hockey and football clubs, as well as educational and family fests.
Nigmatullin has also been an active participant of the city's sporting events. He is a marathon runner and has competed in races held in Moscow, St. Petersburg (including the White Nights marathon), Kazan, and Nizhnekamsk. In a single season, he runs as much as 1,500 kilometers, while also cheering his colleagues during races, and advocating an active lifestyle.
Oleg Grishakov, Head of Ecology at Nizhnekamskneftekhim:
“At Nizhnekamskneftekhim, we have been investing in environmental programs on a regular basis: we retrofit our equipment, implement measures to reduce our environmental impact, develop fish restocking programs. However, our employees’ initiatives play a uniquely special role. They help advance the environmental culture in our city where our people lead by example. Renat Nigmatullin's project shows how engineering knowledge can be converted into a recycling format that is understandable to and accessible for school students. This is the kind of activity that helps people develop consistent eco habits.”
Stanislav Martynenko, Head of Government Relations for SIBUR in Tatarstan:
“We have always been supportive of initiatives that help us develop our city and rally its residents around a common cause. In 2025, with support from SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program, eight volunteering projects initiated by Nizhnekamskneftekhim employees are being implemented here. These include: the Eco-Tournament with a Purpose, Our Children Must Become Great People, Young Ornithologist, Together with Mom, and a few others. These are the projects that provide local residents with tangible benefits and get them involved in social life.”
Renat Nigmatullin, engineer at Nizhnekamskneftekhim:
“I started volunteering back in 2018, when, during the ceremony of reinterment of my great-grandfather’s remains in Smolensk Oblast, I had my first encounter with search volunteers, the ones who do important things for free. It was then that I decided that I, too, wanted to be like them. I started by participating in SIBUR's corporate events including clean-up days, environmental campaigns, cleanups on the banks of the Kama. As time went by, I started to come up with initiatives of my own. When you work with children, you start to realize that for them it's important not only to listen, but also to try things. That’s why everything in our eco-tournaments is built around the concept of hands-on experience. We sort the caps together, start up the machine together, print the first keychains together, and travel to the animal shelters together. And at some point the child would be able to say: 'Now I do understand what all of this is for.' That's what's really worth working for.”
Launched in 2021, the Kind Tatarstan Award celebrates achievements of volunteers who have made a material contribution to the development of the volunteering movement in the republic. The award is co-organized by the Ministry for Youth Affairs of Tatarstan and the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization Volunteering Information and Resource Center. 2025 saw the number of applications competing for the award reach a record 517 entries from across 45 municipalities.
In 2024, SIBUR's Nizhnekamsk facility came first in the Corporate Volunteering – Large Business category. From 2022 to 2024, Nizhnekamsk saw 19 volunteering initiatives getting implemented with support from SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program, with 4,500 employees joining the corporate People Changing the World movement.
Source: https://kazanfirst.ru/news/inzhener-nknh-stal-volontyorom-goda-v-sfere-ekologii-v-premii-dobryj-tata....
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