Vladivostok to participate in the International Coastal Clean-up
Vladivostok will participate in the international action on clearing up the coastal zones. It is known all over the world as the International Coastal Clean-up (ICC). Such an action will be held for the first time not only in Vladivostok, but in Russia.
As RIA PrimaMedia informs the International Coastal Clean-up will be held in Vladivostok on October, 2 and will be timed to the international scientific and practical conference "Sea Ecology - 2007" that starts on October, 3. In the framework of this action the sea shore near the All-Russia children's center "Ocean" will be cleaned.
About 40 people will take part in the pilot action. The employees of the Sea Protection Department of the Maritime State University named after Admiral G.I. Nevelskoy organized this action, the schoolchildren who are having rest in the "Ocean" center, and the observers from Korea, Japan and Australia. All of them will be divided into groups and will work on 4 stretches of the beach. The schoolchildren from the "Ocean" center will clear out 3 stretches, and the visitors and participants of the forthcoming conference will clear out the 4th one.
As Yana Blinovskaya, the senior lecturer of the Sea Protection Department of the Maritime State University, noted, this action had been seriously prepared.
"It is especially important to train the instructors of the ICC who will pick up the garbage and sort it," she said. "That is why our Department arranged the special training of the students. First of all they got the theoretical preparation. At the lectures they learned about the ICC history, and the experience gained in the actions of such kind. The practical activity was the next step. The students cleared up one of the AmurskyBay beaches. They carried out the research work by ICC technique along the beach near the Sea Biology Institute of the Russian Academy of Science Far East Branch. As a result 4 main groups of garbage were collected: plastic, glass, metal and food waste. The second action was held on the Peschany (Sandy) Peninsula, the opposite coast of the gulf. In my opinion, our students proved that both Vladivostok and the Primorsky Territory are ready to join the International Coastal Clean-up system."