(gazeta.ru) - Refinement of Russia’s legal system will help speed up the cleanup of the Arctic territory from waste accumulated since Soviet times, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with participants in the All-Russian Youth Ecological Forum “Ecosystem. Reserved Land”, answering the question of Anastasia Faterina, the head of the volunteers who joined the Clean Arctic project.
According to the president, the country’s regulatory framework will be finalized in the near future, because the future of Russia is largely connected with the Arctic.
The head of state thanked the Clean Arctic volunteers for their work in cleaning up scrap metal and other waste in the Arctic zone, noting that the idea of a “general cleanup” belongs to him.
In 2021, more than two thousand Clean Arctic volunteers collected and sent over 1 500 tons of waste for processing.
