Environment begins an educational campaign in Benidorm secondary schools to promote recycling among young people

In collaboration with the Department of Education, the Department of Environment of  Benidorm City Council has started an educational campaign this Wednesday in the city's secondary schools to educate about environmental values and the importance of selective collection and recycling among teenagers. Bernat de Sarrià Highshool has been the first to host this project, receiving in its facilities the vehicle that provides service as a mobile eco-park, which travels to a different neighbourhood of the city every day of the week, as well as one of the operators responsible for its management.

The councillors of Environment and Education, Mónica Gómez and Maite Moreno, visited the institute to participate in situ at the start of this project. Both have followed the explanations that the operator has offered to the minors, who in a relaxed and pedagogical tone, have transferred all the waste that can be deposited at this clean point, such as used domestic and automotive oil, batteries, paint, neon tubes, x-rays, small household appliances and small spray containers, as well as remains that have no place in recycling containers located on public roads.

This operator has also reminded young people of the need to apply the so-called 'rule of the 3 Rs' – reuse, reduce and recycle – as well as the advantages offered by the mobile eco-park, both to bring citizens a resource for recycling or adequate waste management to guarantee that polluting or dangerous waste is treated or eliminated in environmentally safe conditions.

Mónica Gómez explained that IES Bernat de Sarrià was the first to receive this vehicle, but that the project was born "to reach the greatest possible number of young people and children in our town", so it is open to the participation of other Secondary and Baccalaureate centres and Infant and Primary schools that want to participate. Likewise, the person responsible for the Environment Department and the councillor for Education, Maite Moreno, have highlighted the “importance of educating future generations in environmental values.”