Based on the report on the state of the environment and the way environmental factors affected the health of Sverdlovsk Region population in 2005, three subsidiaries of UralElectroMed (Nevyanskiy mine, Safyanovsk Copper, and Polymetallic Production) produced 9,910,400 tons of waste varying from class 1 to class 4 in terms of being environmentally hazardous, and only 6,613,900 tons were actually recycled. These subsidiaries hit the region’s top ten non-ferrous metallurgical enterprises in terms of waste production. There are 75 non-ferrous metallurgical enterprises in Sverdlovsk Region altogether.