In two days, the Clean Arctic project volunteers cleaned up the Arctic territories in the villages of Batagai and Ese-Khaya of the Verkhoyansky district, collecting more than 30 tons of waste.
According to Andrey Nagibin, head of the Clean Arctic Project office, Yakutia is one of the most active regions for the initiative. Every year, the republic shows good results in terms of the number of volunteers and the volume of waste collected.
"In Yakutia, thanks to the efforts of our volunteers, the disposal of petroleum products on the abandoned ship Dnepr will be completed in the nearest future," Nagibin said.
This year, the Clean Arctic will cover five settlements of Yakutia: the villages of Tiksi, Deputatsky, Batagai and Es-Khaya, as well as the village of Saskylakh in the Anabar district.
During the three years of the implementation of the Clean Arctic project, about 850 tons of scrap metal were collected in Yakutia, an area of 31 hectares was cleaned up, more than 300 volunteers took part in the events, ysia.ru reports.
Alex Shishlo, Editor in Chief of the European Bureau Rough&Polished
