The eco-community called on the Minister of Environment Protection and Natural Resources, Ruslan Strilets, to help preserve the only waste sorting station in Berehove in Transcarpathia.
The station functions in the community thanks to the "Coloured Tanks" eco-movement, but activists lack money to rent a warehouse, eco-activist Artem Prykhodko reports on Facebook.
"Viktor [the founder of the Buchyn eco-movement] is doing a great job to preserve the environment: in addition to accepting and sorting plastic and other garbage, he also cleans rivers in the region (Tysa and Borzhava)," he said.
Prykhodko emphasized that the station has been operating for 3 years. Due to the decrease in the price of oil, raw materials from processed garbage have become much cheaper, and no one is buying them. Therefore, eco-movement cannot pay the rent and due to lack of funds, there is no possibility to continue the work.
He added that today the enterprise has about 15 tons of plastic, as well as paper and other raw materials. He needs to clear the territory and take out materials, raw materials, etc.
"We ask you to support Viktor's initiative and help him continue such a work necessary for ecology," urged Prykhodko.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that Transcarpathian eco-activist Victor Buchynskyi dived into the Borzhava River in the place of a garbage jam with plastic bottles. With such a performance, he wanted to draw attention to the clogging of rivers.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, in Transcarpathia, in the city of Berehove, plastic bottles and other garbage were removed from the Borzhava River with the help of special equipment. The waste was sent to the receiving point sorting station "Color Tanks".
