Polar clean ups: Fighting pollution in the Russian Arctic Georgy Andreev/Green Arctic archive The remnants of the Soviet Arctic exploration are still there, in the form of old barrels used to store petrol. Toxic materials which are still leaking out of them pollute the biosphere. And there’s more to it.
According to calculations made in 2017, just in the coastal zones of the Arctic Ocean, there were up to four million tons of industrial and construction waste, as well as up to 12 million iron barrels. Between 2015 and 2017, the Russian army held a major clean up operation in the Arctic zone by collecting and removing more than 16,000 tons of scrap metal. Though certainly a good start, the problem of pollution in the Russian Arctic zones still demands much work and attention.
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