Dump to be cleared

Two NGOs, the Center for Studying Ecological Problems and Analytical Socio-Economic Training Center, are expected to clear a dump on Babek Avenue near Keshla settlement of Baku on March 24. The clean-up will span close to 100 schoolchildren from Nizami district of Baku in a project funded by the Norwegian embassy.

The scrap-heap mostly with construction, polymeric and paper junks, has littered a territory of over a hectare, President of the Environmental Research Center Kamran Mahmudov told AssA-Irada Saturday. He said while burning polymeric substances emit more than 70 harmful stuffs, mainly with chloride composition that adversely affect soil, plants and public health. They cause respiratory diseases and malign tumors.

Polymeric wastes will be processed, particularly into packages for a separable garbage project, underway in some districts of the 8th Kilometer residential area since January 2002, he said.

The schoolchildren will be able to entertain themselves in the Luna Park after the cleaning.*