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The councilor of Izquierda Unida-Verdes, Gloria Martin, will raise a motion to the ordinary plenary session in May with the aim of the City Council "assessing" and "facing" environmental threats derived from plastic waste, mainly on the Lorca coast.
Specifically, in its battery of measurements, Martín will ask the City of Lorca, in collaboration with companies / companies specialized in the distribution of biodegradable and compostable plastics, to implement a subsidized pilot program aimed at farmers in the vicinity of the Regional Park of Cabo Cope and Calnegre tips, in order to promote sustainable practices and alternatives to the use of polyethylene.
The mayor of IU-Greens will also ask that the regional government be urged to establish, through the University of Murcia, a support program aimed at plastic production companies in Lorca, in order to promote research, development and innovation in the field of bioplastics.
For Martin
In addition to all this, the councilor of IU-Greens will ask the City Council to carry out an awareness campaign on the highly harmful effects of plastic waste among Lorca farmers.
It will also ask the Consistory to contact companies specialized in the collection of plastics in agriculture and its recycling in order to establish a collaboration agreement through which farmers can meet their needs for collection, transport and management of waste generated by their activity .
Likewise, the mayor of IU-Greens proposes that, in order to comply with Law 11/1997, of April 24, on Containers and Packaging Waste, the City Council urges agricultural companies and small farmers with activity in the environment from the Regional Park of Cabo Cope and Puntas de Calnegre to establish a Deposit, Return and Return System (SDDR) or to participate in an Integrated Management System (SIG) for agricultural packaging for proper environmental treatment, similar to what is done with phytosanitary containers (SIGFITO).
Martin recalled a study of the Association 'European Environment' in collaboration with the University of Deusto, has determined that the Puntas de Calnegre-Cabo Cope Regional Park is the point of greatest accumulation of marine litter in Spain.
This place concentrates, in absolute terms, 67.3% of the waste found along the Murcian coastline.
On its beaches, 21,77 types of waste were found per linear meter (compared to the 0.53 found, for example, on Basque beaches or 2.67 in the Valencian Community).
The fundamental cause has to do with the fact that in the surroundings of this regional park, a protected area, there is a confluence between the growing problem of marine litter that draws the current with an intensive agricultural activity: "valves, connectors, irrigation pipes , remains of greenhouse plastic, the cords with which the tomato plants are held, the poliespán plates of the lettuce saucer trays, silicon tweezers ... everything finishes in the sea ", denounced Martín.
In that sense, he explained that marine waste involves a wide range of negative impacts ranging from biological effects in the natural environment (destruction of ecosystems and biodiversity), to the safety and health of human beings.
The plastic, in its microscopic version in the form of microfiber, has been incorporated into the trophic chain.
According to the information provided by researchers from the Murcia-based Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), it already constitutes between 42% and 80% of the dams ingested by some species studied in different coastal areas of the Mediterranean, in which has found a high presence of microplastics in the gastrointestinal tract.
Fish that are then consumed by humans, which results in the ingestion of toxic chemicals.
In addition, the pernicious effects of marine litter also affect the budget and the economic expectations of the municipalities.
"Cleaning a beach full of waste is a significant cost for public administrations, and the decline in cleaning standards also causes losses in the income of the tourism sector," he warned.
Therefore, Gloria Martin considered "urgent" the coordination between public and private, regional and local entities, to promote projects that become the engine of a turn that reverses the flow of garbage that reach our coast.
He also recalled that communication and disclosure on marine litter is "key" to have producers and consumers aware of the impact of their daily actions on the environment.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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