A ravine that has been used instead of a landfill for years will be removed in Kharkiv

A ravine that has been used instead of a landfill for years will be removed in Kharkiv
Katerina Belousova

The promotion is scheduled to start at 12:00

On Sunday, September 10, ecoactivists will hold a clean-up campaign in Kharkiv Mokry Zhikhor ravine on the Zhikhorets river, where household and construction waste accumulated for decades.

All willing volunteers can join the toloka, eco-activist Artem Prykhodko reports on Facebook.

He said that volunteers need to take with them:

  • thick rubber gloves;
  • waterproof shoes with thick soles (rubber boots, boots, sneakers);
  • a set of changing clothes;
  • means against mosquitoes and ticks;
  • drinking water

Prykhodko noted that the action is scheduled to start at 12:00. Volunteers and organizers of the toloka will meet in the nearby KhTZ area Service station on Oleksandrivskyi Avenue, 114b.

How to get there:

  • trolleybus 3, 7, 304 (University-Odeska St. – Novi Budynky – 25 Hospital or Pozharsky St.);
  • "O.S. Maselskyi" metro station (15 minutes' walk from the metro station to Oleksandrivskyi Avenue)

Prykhodko added that questions and suggestions regarding the campaign can be addressed to its organizer Ruslan Aksyonov (063-122-47-55).

Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in Kharkiv, in the KhTZ area, activists began to clear the Mokryi Zhikhor ravine from garbage that had been accumulating there for decades. People want to turn the abandoned river and its slopes into a "paradise corner" and have already collected about 200 bags of various waste.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, Ukrainian eco-activists on Saturday-Sunday September 16-17 will hold a clean-up march, that is, they will simultaneously clean 5 protected areas of garbage accumulated due to human negligence and Russian ecocide.

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