The Arrecife City Council is promoting different initiatives to reduce the use of plastic bags. Through the Department of the Environment, led by Councilor Davinia Déniz, four workshops on the creation of cloth bags will be given during this month of July among the members of different groups and associations established in the municipality of Arrecife. These workshops will be free for all participants.
The Municipal Government led by Mayor Yonathan de León is periodically developing different initiatives, through various areas of the City Council, to raise awareness among citizens and companies about alternatives to reuse and recycle materials.
Now, with the arrival of summer, where a greater part of the population can have more time to carry out training activities, the Department of the Environment is giving these workshops on the creation and making of cloth bags among users and members of different groups. One of the lines of these cloth bags with recycled material is created with chinchorro cloths, which have been provided by the Fishermen's Association of San Ginés, and fishermen of Arrecife.
The workshops begin this Friday, 11th and will be taught in a traveling manner through five areas of the city, where the participants are the users and members of associations from different sectors. The rooms of the Arrecife Municipal Senior Center will host the first workshop this Friday, in the morning. On the 14th, it will be taught at the Titerroy Senior Center. On Thursday the 17th it will be with the AFOL Association, and on Friday the 18th for the members of the El Cribo Association.
The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, accompanied by the Councilor for Beaches and the Environment, Davinia Déniz, and the environmental monitor who will teach these workshops, announced this morning this initiative to promote the use of cloth bags when going shopping. The presentation was held on the new pedestrian promenade of El Reducto, which is acquiring a commercial boom in addition to leisure and restaurant venues.
Yonathan de León detailed that some of "these cloth bags created with reused material have a very seafaring component linked to the port history of Arrecife. The cloth bags with chinchorros greatly identify our city of Arrecife, we carry the coastal origin in the DNA in the Port of Arrecife."
The Councilor for the Environment, Davinia Déniz, was pleased that all the quotas for these four workshops are covered, "which proves that they have been very well received by the associations when we raised it. The Environment is very linked to awareness-raising work, and throughout this mandate it is being our course," she said.
July, International Plastic Bag Free Month
The Arrecife City Council wanted to launch this initiative this month of July to promote the use of cloth bags, as was very common in the families of Lanzarote in the past, coinciding with the World Day without Plastic Bags. Every July 3, the World Day without Plastic Bags is commemorated with the aim of raising awareness about the negative environmental impact of plastic bags and promoting their reduction and replacement with reusable alternatives.
The International Day Free of Plastic Bags within the month of July has become a date to reflect on the excessive use of this type of bags and promote more sustainable alternatives, as the Arrecife City Council is promoting through the Department of the Environment.