The Podemos-Equo municipal group will bring to the plenary session this month two motions focused on health and environmental protection.
Councilwoman Clara Martínez Baeza will be in charge of defending an initiative that pursues a commitment by the City Council to end single-use plastics and promote awareness campaigns in this regard.
The spokesman for the group, Ginés Ruiz Maciá, will present a motion that seeks to create healthy and safe environments around the schools in the municipality.
"It is about implementing public policies that contemplate the environment globally and place it as a place of care and listening making our municipality and our planet a kinder and more liveable place."
With this motivation, the municipal group Podemos-Equo will take to the ordinary plenary session in September, which will take place next Thursday, the 26th, a motion aimed at eliminating the consumption of single-use plastics "both in municipal offices and in organized activities. by this Administration ".
Councilwoman Clara Martínez Baeza will ask for the support of the plenary so that the corporation starts up a plan for the elimination of single-use plastics as well as a campaign to make the residents of the municipality aware of the importance of reducing such products. pollutants
On the other hand, the motion will also urge the government team to install public sources with the objective "to reduce the use of bottled water and motivate the consumption of tap water."
The second motion that the municipal group Podemos-Equo will present in the ordinary plenary session of this month is aimed at guaranteeing the health and safety of schoolchildren in the municipality.
In the motion, the group's spokesman, Ginés Ruiz Maciá, will expose the increase in traffic saturation in the surroundings of schools and institutes, motivated by "an increase in insecurity, which leads parents to move their children in car and the facility offered by the single district so that children have stopped going to the school closest to their homes. "
Therefore, from the Podemos-Equo group, they will urge the government team to design policies aimed at reducing both the level of traffic and noise in school environments "facilitating safe transfers, play areas and sustainable mobility to attend to schools. "
On the other hand, the motion also includes measures to increase woodland and green areas in schoolyards "that will help reduce pollution and noise that students perceive inside schools and institutes."
On a more global level, Ginés Ruiz Maciá will defend the need to carry out, by the government team, "a more urban planning aimed at people and their health, with specific measures to limit and pacify traffic" and will urge the Autonomous Community to "put an end to the single district, that what it has achieved is to increase car transfers and, with it, traffic, parking problems and pollution and noise in school settings."
Source: Podemos-Equo