Volunteers collected hundreds of bags of garbage from the Bakota coast

Volunteers collected hundreds of bags of garbage from the Bakota coast tripmydream.ua
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After the eco-action, the volunteers were given a tour

In Khmelnytskyi, in the Kamianets-Podilskyi district, activists held a "Megatoloka na Bakota" during which 200 bags of garbage were removed from the coast.

40 volunteers from the "Clean Up in the Mountains" eco-movement joined the cleaning of Bakota, Serhiy Tolstikhin, one of the organizers of the action, reported on Facebook.

He said that the garbage was removed in the area of the village of Gorayvka. Waste was taken out on three full trailers.

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Tolstikhin emphasized that Anatolii Tymchuk, the head of the Staroushytsk Territorial Community, helped to remove the garbage.

The activist said that after the eco-action the volunteers were given a tour by Taras Horbnyak, a Bakotologist.

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"A huge thank you to everyone for co-organizing the event and participating. We invite you to the next talks," he added Tolstykhin.

Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in the Rivne Region, on the territory of the Dubensk community, the action "For a clean environment" was held, during which municipal workers and 3,000 residents cleaned about 40 unauthorized garbage dumps.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, in November 2021 in Khmelnytskyi, activists collected 3.5 tons of garbage from the shores of the tourist Bakota, i.e. almost 200 bags. They held the eco-action "Clean up the shores of the Bakot Bay" four times. Local government and business joined the action.

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