#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The public environmental project Clean Arctic will develop a standard for waste collection and removal in the Far North. At the same time, it is proposed to finance the cleanups from regional budgets using environmental payments for fines, the project’s press service reports.
A unified cleanup standard must be developed, since the Arctic territory requires a special approach due to its natural features. For example, when working on tundra surfaces, heavy equipment cannot be used, since it can irreparably damage it. The technology is planned to be tested at the northernmost point of Eurasia, where the project’s volunteers are now heading. “Cleanups at cape Chelyuskin will become annual”, said Andrey Nagibin, head of the public environmental project Clean Arctic.
According to him, by the end of the year the draft document will be submitted for discussion and examination by relevant departments. Nagibin noted that he proposes to solve the problem of providing funding for cleanup activities with the help of so-called colored payments.
“The governors of the Arctic regions approached me with such a proposal. Today, environmental payments for fines go to the regions, they are colored, but they often get stuck, since they are not enough to carry out large-scale environmental events, such as landfill reclamation, for example. But at the same time, they will definitely be enough to organize cleanups within the framework of the Clean Arctic project. And we will have to clean up, as we understand, a lot and for a long time, since the territory of the Arctic zone is 9.5 million hectares”, Nagibin added.
It should be noted that the Clean Arctic project has been carried out since 2021. During this time, six thousand people took part in it, they collected 12 thousand tons of waste. The results of the fourth season will be summed up after the end of the two-month expedition to cape Chelyuskin.
Earlier, This Is Taimyr reported that about 400 abandoned objects were discovered in the Arctic.
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Text: Polina Bardik, Photo: Nikolay Shchipko
