Volunteers told about problems in clearing the Black Sea coastline

Volunteers who come from all corners of Russia lack waterproof bags for collecting fuel oil, personal protective equipment such as respirators and gowns, and there are also problems with delivering waste to recycling points. Coordinators told Izvestia.

On the Black Sea coast, the main attention is now focused on two sections: from the village of Blagoveshchenskaya to the village of Vityazevo and from Vityazevo to the central beach of Anapa, said Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Alexander Kozlov. More than 14 thousand tons of contaminated sand have already been removed from there. Later, the head of the Krasnodar region Veniamin Kondratiev specified that 21 thousand tons of dirty soil had been collected by the end of the day.

At one of the sites on Monday, December 23, worked about 350 volunteers, said one of the coordinators Grigory Vyatkin.

"We are provided with hot meals, set up heating points where volunteers can rest a little while working <...> Now we are removing fuel oil in spots, with a radius of about 20 cm, almost the entire coast is dotted with them. There are no longer any monolithic layers on the coastal territory, and the stains are collected with shovels," he added.

Local volunteers travel along the shores of the Temryuksky district looking for injured birds to give them first aid and send them to Anapa. From there they are also sent the means necessary for first aid to the feathered birds: respirators, syringes and medicines.

"On the Black Sea coast now without tears can not look without tears, every sea wave - a wave of fuel oil and birds <...> Fuel oil, which has already collected, we have to leave on the coast, because there is not enough special equipment that can take it away. It happens that because of strong winds, bags with oil products again carried into the sea," - said a concerned resident of Temryuksky district Irina.

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