Volunteers of the "Clean Arctic" cleared the village of Egvekinot in Chukotka of garbage

A group of volunteers collected small household garbage from an area of two thousand square meters in the Ozernoye microdistrict and prepared a mountain of scrap metal for transportation and disposal.

The cleaning was attended by representatives of the Department of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, employees of the administration of the Egvekinot city district and caring residents of the village — volunteers of the Clean Arctic.

During two days of cleaning in the Ozernoye microdistrict, the participants collected and sent for disposal eight cubic meters of solid household waste and about two tons of scrap metal, the Social Information Agency reports.

"Every year more and more volunteers join us who are not indifferent to the fate of the climate of one of the most important zones of our planet - the Arctic," commented Andrey Nagibin, head of the Clean Arctic project office.

"Chukotka became the final of the nine Arctic regions in which we cleaned this year. But our work is not over yet: now we are clearing the territory in Usinsk in the Komi Republic, there is still the village of Beringovsky ahead - here, in Chukotka."