75°46’34″E 41°49’24″N The bank of the Kara-Unkur River along the Kochkorka-Naryn highway is littered with solid household waste and garbage. The accumulation of household waste, pits on the bank filled with broken glass and food waste mixed with plastic, is a scene typical for almost all rivers in Kyrgyzstan where there are so-called "kumys fields." In many places, due to the lack of trash bins, the riverbed is cluttered with garbage, including doors and other car parts, tree

75°45’31″E 41°57’54″N A landfill is a serious source of environmental pollution. Deep within the garbage pile, decomposition processes occur, involving anaerobic bacteria. As a result of this process, toxic biological gas is released, one of the components of which is methane. Deep soil contamination occurs, foul air is carried by the wind over long distances, and if groundwater lies beneath the landfill, it is practically poisoned by toxins. Thus, the nearest water bodies are toxic and

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.