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Friday 27th May 2022
CALVIÀ PARTICIPATES IN THE COMMEMORATION OF EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT WEEK BY CARRYING OUT CLEAN-UP ACTIONS IN DIFFERENT PLACES OF THE MUNICIPALITY
Different actions included in the Let's Clean Up programme have been promoted from Calvià Town Hall's Environment department, hand in hand with entities and associations of the municipality
Calvià Town Hall's Environment department promotes a series of activities throughout this weekend and until 5th June to commemorate European Environment Week. Amongst them, five clean-up actions stand out, led by different entities of the municipality: OCB Calvià, Mar de Fondo, Mar inquieto, Protemar and Red Cross, which lead land, coastal and even underwater clean-ups.
Let's Clean Up Europe is a common action throughout Europe to raise awareness on the amount of waste that we uncontrollably throw into nature and promote awareness actions through the collection of this waste illegally dumped in forests, beaches, torrent beds, etc. The municipal Environment area has proposed, to the different entities that usually carry out cleaning and awareness actions throughout the municipality, to promote an activity around the European Green Week 2022 and carry out different activities as from today until 5th June, to commemorate the date.
Today, Friday 27th May, OCB Calvià, together with CEIP Ses Quarterades, have carried out a debris clean-up action in the old landfill located next to the CEIP. Within the framework of 'Ses Quarterades que m'agraden' project, a recovery of the space for public use has been carried out for years and, along the same lines, the third and fourth grade students of the CEIP have participated today in the cleaning activity.
Tomorrow, Saturday 28th, it will be the turn of Mar inquieto and Mar de Fondo, which will carry out cleaning actions on the beaches of Illetes and Caleta de Portals, respectively. On Sunday 29th, the Protemar entity will carry out a clean-up action on the coves of Costa d'en Blanes, and on Friday 3rd Red Cross will do so on the Critical Biological Area of Magaluf.
All these actions are part of Calvià's Environmental Spring campaign, which includes a series of environmental activities in May and June to commemorate World (Migratory Bird, Biological Diversity, Environment, Oceans and marine reserves; and Sea Turtle) Day.
The councillor for the Environment, Rafel Sedano, has highlighted the importance of commemorating all these days as a way to raise awareness and to work on raising awareness and teaching on aspects of the environment and Climate change that often go unnoticed.
Within the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a proposal integrated within the framework of Calvià Town Hall's Strategic Environmental Education Plan, it is foreseen to face one of the great challenges that people have today, such as improving the welfare and living conditions of all human beings. In this sense, biodiversity plays a vital role since it depends on the development of economic, social and cultural activities that allow covering all basic subsistence needs.
