'Clean up the world' campaign reaches the island and the Séquia Mare surroundings

Benidorm experience repeated 16 and 18 September in this campaign, aimed to sensitize the public to not dirty pine forests and wooded areas

Benidorm repeats experience with the 'Clean up the world' campaign', sponsored by the United Nations Organization (UN) and to which the City Council joined in 2015. After cleaning last year the wooded area of l'Aigüera, the ravine of El Murtal and the access to the park of Serra Gelada from Sierra Dorada street, 'Clean up the world' in this edition comes to "the Island, and the pine forest of Sequia Mare, in the area of discoteques ", as indicated by the councillor for Citizen Participation, María Jesús Pinto. The councillor presented the details of this campaign accompanied the vice president of the Neighborhood Council, Fernando Montes; Juan Antonio Lizancos, also a member of this body; and the Director of Marketing of Terra Natura, Begoña López. The campaign will be developed on Friday 16 September between 10.00 and 13.00 in the pine forest near the Séquia Mare, and on Sunday 18 at the same time on the island, where the seabed will be also cleaned. The boat to transport participants to the island leave the harbor at 10.00. In both actions, the City Hall and the Neighborhood Council have the participation of different partners such as Doble Amor Center, ASMIBE, Tapis, Aspanion, Aerbeco, Fires, Socio-Cultural Association of the Local Police, Red Cross, Horizontes Group Scouts, Nissos and Diving Stones dive centers, Ecuadorian Association of Benidorm, the guide of Serra Gelada Natural Park, the guardian of the City Hall, volunteers and neighbors. In total "about 150 people"; an influx that is "a qualitative leap" over the previous year. The councilwoman explained that this campaign "aims not only to clean certain environments, but combine the feeling of working for nature together, promoting the responsibility to protect the environment and respect natural spaces." The vice presindent of the Neighborhood Council noted that, in addition to cleaning the environment, after the experience of last year, "we realized that the campaign may have many more possibilities, from a perspective of integration and didactic." The first, according to Montes, is fulfilled in this second edition with the participation of numerous entities, while the second can be explored in subsequent years by involving schools in Benidorm. 'Clean up the world' is part of the program of Nations for Environment in the UN in which around 35 million people, volunteers from more than 120 countries participate. In this second edition the departments of Environment and Street Cleaning collaborate -giving human and material means- concessionaires: Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC), La Genarala, Terra Natura, Aqua Natura and Marine Excursions. The Marketing director of Terra Natura has welcomed the decision of the City Hall and the Neighborhood Council to develop this environmental action and awareness initiative because such actions "are of vital importance."