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The Councillor for Environment, Mechor Morales, has reported that this initiative Limusa in collaboration with the Regional Union of Traders aims to reduce the indiscriminate use of single use bags.

1,500 guardabolsas also distributed in supermarkets.

Councillor for the Environment of the City of Lorca, Melchor Morales, announced that the municipal Limusa, in coordination with the Regional Union of Traders, has launched a communication campaign among its citizens in order to reduce the indiscriminate use of bags single use supermarkets usually delivered to bag the purchases.

Lorca is one of 24 municipalities assigned to the regional initiative, and the largest target population, with one in six residents involved.

The main objective of this campaign is to encourage the habit of recycling (in this case bags) and recycling (plastic bag once it has ceased to be useful to be deposited in the yellow).

To this end, distributed more than 10,000 reusable bags and 1,500 guardabolsas among consumers of the supermarkets in the municipality.

The selection of participants involves all the shops belonging to the business group in the industry, UCCL, which is also attributed to training tasks assigned partners for the initiative, representing the employers signatory (CROEM) the regional agreement has led to the environmental initiative.

In addition, participating establishments indirectly Eroski shopping centers Almenara and San Diego, in addition to the facilities and Super Spar Lorca Olé, by action of the regional association of large-area stores.

This campaign is one of the actions arising from the accession of Lorca to the Regional Strategy for the Reduction of single-use bags and comes with the intention of creating a new public attitude against its indiscriminate use to minimize their environmental impact.

The campaign called Exchange 15 means to inform citizens that there is a reusable plastic bag at least 15 times with 25% more capacity and more durable than ordinary commercial exchange.

The City of Lorca, along with the Ministry of Agriculture and Water, distributed copies of participating stores these bags to distribute to their customers.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca