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| This initiative will reach 158 educational centers in the municipality | The Councilor for Sustainable Mobility and Youth, Rebeca Pérez, has delivered this morning to the presidents of Municipal Boards and District Boards, the first reusable masks with messages about caring for the environment that will be distributed among schoolchildren in the municipality, thanks to the collaboration of Ferrovial Services. The event was attended by the president of the Zarandona Municipal Board, Francisco José Esteban; the president of the Puente Tocinos Municipal Board, Marta Cano; and the president of the Municipal Board of La Flota-Vistalegre, Santiago Vera. The objective of this campaign is to send reusable masks with printed messages about caring for the environment to all Kindergarten and Primary schoolchildren in the municipality, accompanied by the image of the eco-elf Lili.  This initiative will reach a total of 45,221 students (13,742 in Infant and 31,479 in Primary) from 158 public, subsidized and special education centers in the municipality. During the day today they have been delivered to the presidents of the municipal boards of Zarandona, Puente Tocinos and La Flota-Vistalegre, who in turn will distribute them to the directors of CEIP San Félix, CEIP La Flota, CEIP Luis Costa, CC La Fleet, CEIP Our Lady of Arrixaca, Fuenteblanca, La Merced-Fuensanta, San Buenaventura, CEIP Infanta Cristina, CEIP Our Lady of the Rosary, CEIP Pintor Pedro Flores, CEIP Ramón Gaya, Marco, Monteagudo-Nelva and San Lorenzo. In the coming days, the civic brigades of the Road Cleaning service will carry out a massive distribution of 45,000 reusable masks for primary school students, belonging to all schools in the municipality of Murcia. "With this initiative we seek, on the one hand, to help curb infections and protect schoolchildren, and, on the other, to always keep these messages of caring for the environment in mind," said Rebeca Pérez. "This delivery of the priority individual protection elements joins the different cleaning and security measures that are carried out in schools, thus creating safe school environments", explained Pérez These masks are REACH compliant and have been successfully tested before use and after 10 washes (60?) Under the Spanish Standard UNE CWA 17753: 2020 EN13274-7.

They have a filtration performance = 70%. Correct deposit of masks The masks, after use, are deposited in the gray container, the remainder fraction, avoiding the environmental damage that an improper deposit can cause in the environment. The same materials that help protect from contagion, can spread it if they are not deposited in the appropriate containers, a real risk, to which is added the damage that their arrival in natural environments. In no case, the masks should be deposited in the yellow containers of light packaging, nor in the blue of paper and cardboard, since they can contaminate other recyclable products. The masks deposited in the waste container arrive at the Cañada Hermosa treatment center where the normal automated treatment is applied at the waste sorting plant.

These wastes are treated by applying the guidelines set by the competent ministry. Due to their light weight, the masks pass through the trommel, a large cylindrical sieve, until they reach the ballistic one.

From there, they are sent to the recovered solid fuel plant, where they will be energetically recovered as part of CSR, which is used as an energy source in cement plants as a good alternative to fossil energy or they are converted into rejection safely deposited in the controlled deposit.  function { ;(, , {});}

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia