OREANDA-NEWS As part of the federal project "General Cleaning", 28 garbage dumps in the Central Ecological Zone of Lake Baikal with a total area of 55 hectares will be cleaned, said Alexander Kozlov, head of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation.

"We will continue to raise and dispose of sunken ships in the waters of the Far East, and, of course, a separate module includes landfills located in the Central ecological Zone of Lake Baikal. These are 28 landfills with a total area of 55 hectares," Kozlov said at a WEF press conference on Environmental Well-being and Economic Independence.

He stressed that the Baikal Line will be included in each federal project of the new national project "Environmental Well-being" as a separate module.

As part of the federal project "General Cleaning", with the participation of the public, a "national" register of waste disposal facilities was compiled, it included about 3 thousand unauthorized landfills. Their inventory is being carried out and the order of cleaning is being determined.

National projects were adopted by the government on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation in 2018. The implementation of the national project "Ecology" should be completed in 2024. In April of this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to allocate at least 600 billion rubles for the implementation of the updated national project "Environmental Well-being" in 2025-2030, which will include six areas: federal projects "General Cleaning", "Closed-loop Economy", "Clean Air", "Russian Water", "Forest Conservation", "Conservation of biodiversity".

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