Benidorm incorporates five new containers for "Tapones para una nueva vida" campaign

Benidorm City Council continues its collaboration with the "Tapones para una nueva vida" campaign launched by SEUR Foundation with the placement in different areas of the city of five new cap recycling containers in addition to the one that has existed for months in Avenida de l'Aigüera in front of the Town Hall.

The new containers are located in La Cala (Secretario Juan Baldoví street), Rincón de Loix (Juan Fuster Zaragoza street), Els Tolls (Avenida Bélgica), Colonia Madrid (Llorca Linares Social Center), Centro (Maravall street with Plaza Neptuno).

The campaign, as indicated by the Councilor for the Environment, Mónica Gómez, consists of “a project aimed at collecting plastic caps for recycling.

These caps are subsequently delivered to a recycling company that will pay the existing market price per tonne”.

The mayor specified that the amount obtained by recycling the caps collected in Benidorm "is intended for the aid and assistance of minors in need due to diseases not covered by ordinary health systems", an aspect that is also specified in the agreement signed between the parties.

The first of these heart-shaped containers was installed months ago on Avenida de l'Aigüera, next to the Town Hall and in front of the Cristal Park hotel, and now the same has been done with the new five containers. In this sense, Mónica Gómez has expressed her "great satisfaction for the neighborhood response" and has pointed out that "the residents of Benidorm always turn to solidarity initiatives and that is why we want to make it easier for them to do so in this case as well, bringing the campaign closer to all the neighborhoods of our city”.

The mayor took the opportunity to "invite people to recycle and take care of the environment by making the simple gesture of saving plastic caps instead of throwing them away." It is, she has pointed out, "a social and humanitarian action" that the SEUR Foundation facilitates.

The SEUR Foundation launched "Tapones para una nueva vida" campaing in 2011 and since then almost 200 children from all over Spain have been beneficiaries to receive medical or orthopedic treatment thanks to a collection of more than 1.3 million euros.

With the recycling of this plastic, the emission of more than 8,300 tons of CO2, the main gas that causes climate change, has been avoided. It would take 1.2 million trees for a whole year to achieve the same environmental benefit (equivalent to a forest whose surface would occupy 142 soccer fields).