The Tías City Council distributes 2,340 reusable bottles in its schools and institutes

Within the framework of the celebration of World Environment Day, the Tías City Council delivered a total of 2,340 reusable water bottles to students, teachers, management team, and all staff working in the early childhood, primary, and secondary educational centers in the municipality this week.

The mayor, José Juan Cruz, and the councilors for Environment, Education, Finance, and Playgrounds, Carmen Gloria Rodríguez, Miriam Hernández, Tomás Silvera, and Christopher Notario, visited the schools and institutes these days, where they handed out the reusable bottles and made a global call for climate action.   

The councilors spoke with the schoolchildren and students about the need to reduce the consumption of single-use plastics. Avoiding disposable bottles reduces pollution in landfills and oceans, where plastic takes hundreds of years to degrade, fragmenting into microplastics that harm ecosystems.

The reusable bottles were given away at the La Asomada-Mácher, Concepción Rodríguez Artiles, and Alcalde Rafael Cedrés Early Childhood and Primary Education Centers (CEIP), and at the Tías and Puerto del Carmen Secondary Education Institutes (IES).

The bottles are made of recycled aluminum with a metallic finish and equipped with a cap with a safety screw mouthpiece and a carrying handle. They are personalized with the monocolor blue logo of the 60th anniversary of Puerto del Carmen and with the phrase by José Saramago, Nobel Prize in Literature: "Quality tourism is respectful tourism that goes to a place that respects itself."

This action is part of the Tías Zero Plastic Strategy, a municipal initiative to prevent plastic waste and its dispersion into the marine environment. The objective of distributing the bottles is to minimize the plastic footprint in the municipality and promote responsible consumption habits among residents and visitors.