77°11’29″E 42°9’10″N According to experts, none of the hundreds of "official" landfills, not to mention the thousands of illegal dumps around Lake Issyk-Kul, can claim to fully comply with the required sanitary-ecological and any other standards. Here, animal carcasses are dumped, the landfill area is not fenced, and during rainfall and snowmelt, dirt seeps into the groundwater. Even with slight gusts of wind, plastic bags, clouds of dust, and dirt are carried far beyond the landfill.