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Within the awareness campaign developed by the City Council through Cespa, service concessionaire.
Besides visiting the treatment center Cañada Hermosa, also give talks in schools and celebrated the annual drawing competition involving more than 8,000 students.
Jose Ros recalls the importance of "keeping our ecological awareness on alert" and "improving our habits regarding recycling and caring for our environment."
"With every positive action individually we do get a benefit of everyone," says Ros.
The individual action of each is of benefit to all, especially when it comes to environmental protection and, specifically, in the management of municipal solid waste produced by Murcia.
Hence the importance of public awareness campaign that each year the city of Murcia develops through Cespa, concessionary of this service, which in 2011 saw the participation of more than 25,000 Murcia, almost 20,000 of them schoolchildren.
One of her most in demand is the visit to the Treatment of Municipal Solid Waste Cañada Hermosa, where about 3,200 students from 6th grade attended "in situ" the "journey" that perform the municipal waste we generate, from its origin in households to disposal or recovery.
In 2011 lived this experience 121 groups of 6 of 85 primary schools, plus 3 PEEM institutes and students of El Palmar, Fundown and Astrapace.
The visit gave them the opportunity to meet individual residues therein are and discover the chain of recycling, the environmental benefits involved and the role we play each to achieve these objectives.
After the talk in the classroom for environmental education, the students toured the treatment center for their facilities, from the recycling plant at the landfill, the selection of plant containers, the biogas plant and the composting of organic waste .
Councilmember Urban Cleaning and Waste Management, Joseph Ros, stressed the importance of developing awareness campaign with students referred to the urban hygiene, recycling and the environment to help "develop new attitudes in the care of our environment. "
So Ros advocates "keep alert our ecological conscience", which implies the need to treat waste properly to protect the environment, which is essential to respect the habit of separating from home "
Clean dirty more and less
If the journey traveled by waste to disposal has a fundamental importance in the awareness program, are also important aspects that complete, including:
- Talks about "The game of waste", with which it is intended to motivate the students to assist in the collection.
IN 2011 130 talks were given to 3,200 students in 4th grade of primary education from 95 centers.
- Talks "The cleanest city among all" in tune with the premise that the city is cleaner just because you clean a lot, but also because less dirt.
In 2011 were given 150 presentations to 3,525 students in grades 5 of 112 primary schools.
- Drawing Contest "Murcia sustainable city", in which nearly 9,000 students expressed their ideas, input and suggestions on cleaning the city and separate collection.
- Visit to the treatment center by groups interested in the management carried out in Murcia with the waste generated by the population.
Over a thousand people made the visit last year, including the universities of Murcia, Elche, Orihuela and UPTC, as well as institutes of the region.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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