Feature story - 27 June, 2007
Russian Federation. June 18, 2007. Saint-Petersburg. Greenpeace’s action of cleaning natural territories has taken place on the last Sunday near Repino, on the coast of Gulf of Finland.
For several hours coastal forest was cleaned of 9 cubic metre of
garbage. More then a third of garbage was sent on recycling. 15
volunteers of Greenpeace from Russia, Germany and Benin took part
in this action.
"By means of such actions we want to show that common people are
able to improve the situation by their own strength if they want
and don't be indifferent to existence around them", - said Natalya
Pshenichnaya, the Greenpeace volunteer and the organizer of the
action.
Every summer Greenpeace carry out a few actions like this one in
Leningrad region and close to Saint-Petersburg attracting attention
to the problem of cluttering up natural territories; appealing
people not to litter and authorities to provide civilized
collection and recycling of waste products.
An additional information
On average 1 cubic metre of waste sent on recycling lets to save
2 trees and to prevent atmospheric emission of 140 kilogram of
harmful substances.
More information: (812)352-1022, 352-9219 - Saint-Petersburg's
office Greenpeace. +7-921-3103000 - Natalya Pshenichnaya, the
organizer of the action.
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