On September 10, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. Over a thousand volunteers in the Vitebsk region have already expressed their desire to participate in the global campaign "World Cleanup 2012: Let's Do It Together", Tatiana Yasiulina, chief specialist of the Vitebsk Regional Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, told a BELTA correspondent. The campaign in Belarus is organised by the Centre for Environmental Solutions with the support of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Belarus. The campaign finale will take place on September 15, and the Vitebsk Regional Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection has invited all interested residents of the region to participate. It is expected that the main efforts of volunteers will be directed towards cleaning up territories from unauthorised dumps, primarily forest areas. For instance, in the Vitebsk district and Vitebsk alone, about a hundred volunteers will participate in the world cleanup. The call to tidy up our common home – the planet – has been actively responded to in Ushachi, Senno, Tolochin, Braslav, Sharkovshchina, and Lepel districts. Among the volunteers are employees of district environmental protection organisations, public environmental inspectors, and members of public organisations. According to the Regional Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, the problem of unauthorised dumps remains relevant for the region: over 700 have been detected since the beginning of 2012. Inspectors have drawn up 490 administrative protocols against entities responsible for the formation of dumps. Moreover, the majority of protocols – 429 – were drawn up against individuals. The "World Cleanup-2012" was launched at the beginning of January this year at a conference in Tallinn. It is planned that cleanups will take place worldwide, covering all continents and uniting millions of volunteers in 100 countries. Teams for tidying up the planet have already been formed in Austria, Armenia, Bulgaria, Brazil, Holland, India, and Russia.-0-

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