Volunteers of the Clean Arctic project will help clean up waste in closed military cities in the Arctic. The government is allocating 30 billion rubles for this purpose in 2024-2026, said Andrey Nagibin, head of the public environmental project Clean Arctic.
According to him, public figures have limited opportunities, so the support of the state will help bring the quality of life in these cities to a fundamentally new level. Combining the efforts of the authorities and public figures is the best option for the development of the Arctic territories, Nagibin believes.
During the three seasons of the Clean Arctic project, about 6,000 people took part in cleaning up the territories. In total, they cleaned 491 hectares of territory, collected about 12,000 tons of waste.
Alex Shishlo, Editor in Chief of the European Bureau, Rough&Polished
