It will take 5-6 years to clean up the Arctic zone, said the head of Rosprirodnadzor (Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources Management) Svetlana Radionova.
Cleaning the Arctic from the accumulated over the years of development of domestic waste can take up to six years. This is how the head of the Federal Supervisory Natural Resources Management Service, Svetlana Radionova, assessed the scale of the problem.
In her Telegram-channel she noted that wild animals suffer because of the garbage. The statement of the head of the agency sounded in connection with the resonance case of the red-book polar bear. He came to people for help in the Krasnoyarsk village of Dickson because of the fact that in his mouth was stuck a can.
Radionova said that when the decision was made to clean up the habitat of polar bears and other red-listed animals, it became clear that it would take more than a year. "I think it will last five, maybe six years," she explained.