YAKUTSK, November 16. /TASS/. The thermal waste treatment project, launched in Yakutia for the first time in the village of Chokurdy, will be implemented in the region's all Arctic districts before 2027, the regional Housing and Communal Services Company told TASS.

The company has been the region's solid municipal waste management operator in Yakutia's Arctic zone since 2019. In summer, Yakutia's Governor Aisen Nikolaev issued an order to implement the project, tested in Chokurdakh, in other districts, especially those in the Arctic zone.

"Under the regional waste management regulations, Yakutia gradually changes the approach from using landfills in favor of thermal treatment with subsequent ash disposal," the company's press service said. "For this purpose, 13 thermal treatment facilities will be created throughout the region before 2027."

Between 2020 and 2023, the company has bought seven incinerators worth more than 54 million rubles ($604,000). The purchased equipment has all the necessary permits, from the state environmental services, the press service added.

New facilities have been commissioned in the Ust-Yansky and Anabarsky Districts. "Right now, more than 1,000 cubic meters of solid waste are processed monthly. In other districts, together with municipalities, the company has been selecting land plots for the facilities. In 2024, it will work on facilities in the village of Batagai (the Verkhoyansky District), the village of Chersky (the Nizhnekolymsky District) and in the village of Ust-Kuiga (the Ust-Yansky District). Incinerators will be delivered there when the winter roads allow in 2023-2024," the press service said.

Yakutia is known for a low population density in the Arctic territories. Its geographical location and natural conditions have a special impact on transport logistics. Therefore it would have been ineffective to build large facilities in the region's Arctic districts.