YAKUTSK, November 8. /TASS/. Volunteers and companies in Yakutia collected almost 6,000 tons of scrap metal under the Clean Arctic project, press service of the regional ministry for Arctic development and the North's peoples' affairs told TASS.
"Volunteers only have collected 850 tons of scrap metal since the Clean Arctic project was launched. The local companies have collected about 5,000 tons - those are companies VSSK, Arktivtormet, Yanolovo," the ministry's press service said. In 2024, the project will continue in Yakutia's Bulunsky, Verkhoyansky, Zhigansky, Ust-Yansky Districts.
The Clean Arctic federal project was launched in the region in August 2021 in the village of Tiksi in the Bulunsky District, and later on the project was extended to the region's other Arctic districts.
The Yanolovo Company, a resident of the Russian Federation's Arctic Zone, has collected about 200 tons of scrap metal. The investor is developing placer tin deposits in the Ust-Yansky District in Yakutia's north. "In early 2022, Yanolovo began participating in the Clean Arctic project. The village of Sayylyk in Yakutia's Ust-Yansky District was chosen as the cleanup location," the company told TASS.
The project's objective is to clean the territories from the waste accumulated there in the Soviet time's intensive development of the Arctic. The project features volunteers both from Russia and from abroad.