Volunteers reported collecting 70 bags of petroleum products in Gizel Dere.

This morning alone, volunteers collected 70 bags of oil spills in Gizel Dere. Work continues at other beaches in the Tuapse District, particularly in the village of Tyumensky. An environmentalist suggested using sorbents and washing pebbles on the beach in addition to collecting emissions.

As reported by "Kavkazsky Uzel," rescuers reported that cleanup efforts for the oil spill near the Tuapse Oil Refinery have been completed. Telegram users responded sarcastically to official reports on the cleanup of the oil spill near the refinery and promises to clean the beaches by June 1.

An ecologist suggested using other methods for beach cleanup.

This morning, 70 bags of fuel oil were collected, according to the Gisel Dere headquarters. "The pollution is localized. Due to the complex nature of the coastline, the process of cleaning and removing bags of contaminated pebbles is fraught with considerable difficulties. PPE is available, food is provided, and a clear procedure is in place," Alan, the Gisele Dere headquarters' Telegram channel, previously wrote.

Today, a meeting of volunteers took place, including those from the Tyumen headquarters and ecologist Igor Shkradyuk.

Shkradyuk proposed a number of measures aimed at improving the effectiveness of emergency response efforts. "Using an oil-absorbing sorbent in the sea as it approaches the shore. Washing stones on the shore with a high-pressure pump. Washing stones on the shore in a mixer," user Alan reported in the "Razliv na svyazi" Telegram chat. According to him, it was decided to test all these cleaning methods at the Tyumen headquarters.

Volunteers debated the effectiveness of booms

In the "Raziv na sluzhba" community, the Tyumen headquarters called for empty 1.5-liter bottles to be brought to them for boom installation.

"To avoid further environmental problems, we would like to use only used bottles for this purpose." "Therefore, we are issuing a call for the collection of empty 1.5-liter plastic bottles in Tyumen!" wrote Ekaterina Shtern.

Volunteers from the SSL Volunteers headquarters felt that floating booms were a belated solution. "After the main beaching, part of the oil slick breaks up, part settles to the bottom, and part penetrates into the water at the water's edge. Every wave creates a 'shake', and various fragments begin to float on the surface and in the water. We spent five months collecting this kind of shake with nets on the Bugayskaya Spit. A boom like this is obviously no longer of any use. It only works on the surface of the water and when the main solid slick approaches from the outside. And someone has to collect it when it hits the boom. Whatever's sloshing around in the water will continue to slosh back and forth, again and again polluting the (let's say) already cleared shore. But let's assume there's nothing in the water and it's now trapped on the surface from the sea. Without collection, where will it go? That's right, to the neighbor on the left or right shore, whoever didn't put up the boom. "And installing it is not a cheap pleasure, where the figures tend to a million for a small plot," they write.

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