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| The objective of the campaign is to make residents and tourists aware of the damages caused by the generation of waste in these spaces of special environmental valueL | The Minister of Water, Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and the Environment, Antonio Luengo, accompanied by the Mayor of San Pedro del Pinatar, Visitación Martínez and the Councilor for the Environment, Silvia Egea, presented the campaign today on La Llana beach of environmental awareness 'Zero Plastics in Natural Spaces', which will take place in the Regional Parks of Salinas and Arenales in San Pedro del Pinatar and Calblanque. Luengo explained that the objective of the campaign is "to sensitize society, and especially the youngest, about the fact that plastic is invading the natural environment and harming living beings, including humans, so there is the situation that almost all the elements of the natural environment have plastic inside ". With this campaign it is also proposed "to offer a series of alternatives to plastic that represent more sustainable options, both for visiting the natural space and in daily life in our homes.
The idea is to reduce the waste of resources and the pollution that we cause as consumers in our daily lives, "said the counselor. The Ministry has been working on this campaign since last summer, "aimed not only at visitors who go to natural spaces, since four out of every five plastic waste that reaches these places comes from towns and cities, so it has been done extended to the surrounding populations and the general public through our social networks ". Likewise, since last school year, the Visitor Attention Service in Protected Natural Areas has developed the 'Zero Waste' campaign, a proposal to minimize the waste produced in guided visits, proposing alternatives to the participating groups so that their lunches are more sustainable. In addition, the information team of the Protected Spaces of the coast of the Region carries out an awareness campaign aimed at summer visitors, "with the aim of reducing single-use plastics, offering visitors alternatives such as cloth bags of campaign, made of organic cotton, and reusable 0 percent plastic bottles.
A brochure made of recycled paper is also distributed, offering proposals for both your visit to the Protected Spaces and your day-to-day life, and a the campaign so that they continue to remember her when they return from their vacation destination, "he said. Antonio Luengo recalled that the presence of plastics in the natural environment "is one of the main environmental problems that we are currently facing, and the regional government is so concerned about the presence of plastics in the environment and its impact on our seas, oceans and coasts as convinced of the viability of a more sustainable and circular model, in line with the European strategy on plastics that aims to transform the way in which products are designed, produced, used and recycled in the European Union " .
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar
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