The article provides materials on the natural restoration of land cover in the territory occupied by the waste storage facility of the pulp and paper industry. The article contains information on the level of soil fertility formed on this territory as a result of decomposition of organic waste over 25 years. The composition of the phytocenosis is presented. The article provides materials on the ecological state of the studied object, and also considers the technological operations of reclamation of an authorized landfill in the areas of forestry and recreational land use, taking into account the ecosystem formed at the storage facility.