On the morning of Thursday 17 February, the mayor of Lorquí, Dolores Garcia Villa, has officially launched the campaign "Bolsa15" to be held in the city, an act that has seen a representation of the six local businesses that participate in this initiative .
A proposal initiated by the City ilorcitano by the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Regional Government (within the Regional Strategy for Reduction of single-use bags "), which aims to reduce the indiscriminate use of a single stock delivered regularly use supermarkets to bag purchases.
In this campaign will participate in the town supermarket "Sangui", "Benito", "Day", "Los Rosales", "La Flor de Murcia" and "Aldi" (on the road from the station), which allocated among its customers A total of 3,500 units of these bags, plus an attractive "Keep bags" that will serve to keep the folded plastic bags, ready for reuse.
"We want our neighbors know that there is this bag made of plastic material that can be used at least 15 times, with 25% more capacity and more resistant than single-use bags," says Garcia Villa, who notes that "this bag is more durable than traditional plastic bags, holds 25% more capacity and is 100% recyclable."
Public awareness
"Despite having only a life of 12 minutes non-biodegradable plastic bags need 400 years to degrade and are consumed each year worldwide between 500 billion and a trillion of these bags," says the mayor ilorcitana, indicating that this campaign will seek "public awareness to address the inordinate and indiscriminate use of plastic bags for single use, encouraging the habit of reusing and recycling and trying to minimize their environmental impact."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorquí