A total of 150 volunteers from Banco Santander in collaboration with Club Náutico de Águilas carried out last weekend a day of awareness and care of the environment on the coast of Cabo Cope.
The objective is to raise awareness of the damage produced by plastic waste in the environment, transmitting to the food chain and therefore to ourselves.
In the House of Culture Francisco Rabal, Ginés Desiderio Navarro, councilor of tourism and local development welcomed them and contextualized the problem of waste at sea as a global problem, but that requires multiple local solutions.
In addition, they received an introductory talk, as well as guidelines to follow during the fieldwork by the municipal environmental education technician.
They defined the objective of the action destined to the cleaning of the coasts and the care of the sea, by means of the collection of waste.
Later, they traveled by bus to the Tower of Cope and the beach of the Ensenada de la Fuente where they did work measuring micro plastics and collected hundreds of kilos of plastic waste that the past rains brought to the Mediterranean.
In the coming months, Santander volunteers who so wish, both active employees, early retirees, clients and volunteers interested in the cause, will carry out actions similar to those that have now been launched in other Spanish regions. .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas