From the beaches of Anapa for a day removed 120 cubic meters of garbage
Rescuers and volunteers from Krasnodar, involved in the liquidation of the consequences of the fuel oil spill due to the tanker crash, have removed 120 cubic meters of garbage from the coastline of Anapa over the past day. This was announced on January 9 in the press service of the administration of Krasnodar.
51 volunteers and 10 units of equipment took part in the work. In total, six dump trucks of garbage were removed from the beaches.
Since December 18, Anapa beaches were cleaned from more than 10 thousand cubic meters of sand mixed with fuel oil, using 478 dump trucks.
Volunteers again came to the beaches of Anapa to collect the remains of oil products, which appeared on the shore due to wind and storm.
Earlier in the day, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the fuel oil spill in the Black Sea one of the most serious environmental challenges in recent years during a meeting with members of the Russian government.
Before that, on January 7, over 129 thousand tons of sand contaminated with fuel oil were removed from the beaches of Kuban.
Tankers "Volgoneft-212" and "Volgoneft-239" due to bad weather crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15, 2024. The incident resulted in a spill of oil products. 27 people were evacuated from both vessels, one person died. On Putin's instructions, a working group was set up to coordinate work to eliminate the consequences of the emergency.
