Sand from Anapa beaches will be toxic for at least another 10 years due to the release of fuel oil. This is exactly how much is needed to restore nature after a black slurry spill.
The entire coast is filled with bags of fuel oil – there is nowhere else to put the substance. While volunteers are waiting for equipment to take the garbage to the disposal site, a stubborn black mass seeps through the polyethylene, and everything must be collected again. Locals do not have enough transport for cleaning, waste removal and transportation of birds. As well as iron containers for fuel oil.
Sand mixed with petroleum substances can only be disposed of at special landfills, ideally at licensed oil refineries. Before destruction, specialists must carefully separate the sand from the fuel oil, Svetlana Kovalevskaya, adviser to the head of the environmental society, told us.
❗️Subscribe to Mash
