Almazy Anabara evacuates from the tundra hundreds of tons of scrap metal

Along the Northern Sea Route, Almazy Anabara JSC of the ALROSA Group sent to Arkhangelsk another cargo of scrap metal with a total weight of 778.2 tons, collected last year in the tundra of the Anabar district, absoluttv.ru reports.
Since the middle of the last century, large-scale development of territories has been carried out in the Arctic North, but issues of waste disposal, in particular ferrous scrap, have not been given due attention.
In 2010, at the first international forum "The Arctic – the territory of dialogue", Russian President Vladimir Putin announced for the first time a program of environmental rehabilitation of the Arctic.
Since then, a full-scale work has been carried out within the framework of the Arctic cleanup program.
A large number of unauthorized scrap dumps remain on the territory of Yakutia today. Previously, military units were stationed in the Arctic part of the republic, then there were liquidated industrial settlements and bases of exploration parties. In the early 1990s, the entire inventory, including workshops, boiler equipment, was left to rust in the Anabar tundra in the form of a huge unattended landfill.
In the company Almazy Anabara for many years of work, the tradition has been firmly established: to bring cleanliness and order to the place of their activities. The rusted multi-ton iron is collected at the storage site, then cut into smaller pieces, pressed, transported and stored in a specially designated place at the pier.
"Despite the significant costs of transporting scrap metal by water, we plan to continue the business we have started. There are plans for September to export another 1,700 tons of such cargo from the territory of Anabar ulus," said Pavel Marinychev, General Director of Almazy Anabara JSC.

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