Five months ago, several groups joined together to present the campaign "Don't share your debris", providing a map with more than 500 illegal dumping points throughout Lanzarote. Now, these associations have raised their voices again to denounce that since then "not even 2% of the points on the map have been removed" and that "this illegal practice continues to increase."
Representatives of these associations, including Papacría, Desert Wacht Lanzarote, Lanzarote Limpia, Grupo Local SEO Lanzarote, SECAC, WWF and the Frente de Lanzarote platform, met last Monday with the Minister of the Environment of the Cabildo, Ariagona González, with the head of the Department of the Environment, Trinidad Melgarejo, and with the director of the Biosphere Reserve, Ana Carrasco, in order to address this "serious problem."
At the meeting, the groups requested the Cabildo "the cleaning of these points, as well as greater surveillance, a greater amount of sanctions and environmental awareness campaigns aimed at citizens."
They also see as necessary "greater coordination of the Cabildo with the town councils and with the groups so that this campaign prospers", and demand that the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, convene an island environment table "to inform and coordinate all the town councils of the island and, once the Council of the Biosphere Reserve is formalized, the initiative will continue through a sectoral table" in that Council.
These groups point out that "only through the union of the civil part and the administrations can we become an example in the conservation of the environment and, consequently, in the care of our own health."
