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The Social Centre Roque Baños, was held yesterday a day of awareness under the name "Green, I love green ', organized by the Department of Environment Hall and sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Water of the Autonomous Region de Murcia, and Ecovidrio Ecoembes.

The aim is to present methods that are in the hands of citizens in order to reduce the amount of waste we generate today.

The symposium was attended by several dozen people and, through a play of the hand of Arana Theatre and an exhibition hosted by the biologist Mari Carmen Martinez, spoke of the urgent need for action to achieve sustainability of the planet, through what they call the three 'r': reducing, reusing and recycling household waste.

The ceremony was this Jesus Sanchez, Councillor of Agriculture.

In his speech thanked the attendees and the media, and Mari Carmen Martinez, the biologist, person responsible for carrying out the day and Cristina Molina, Local Development Officer of the Department of Environment of the City.

Sanchez said that "the fundamental characteristics of this day is that the City Council, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Ecoembes AC and try to raise awareness, inform and sensitize the public on the issue of environment and specifically on the need reduce waste, primarily domestic in this case, reuse and recycling of the same, which is fundamental in society that we live. "

For its part, with a staging dynamic and participatory, Mari Carmen Martínez and actor, explained the content of the campaign "Green I want you green."

"With this name we want to raise awareness of all citizens to continue fighting to maintain a clean Murcia and therefore an environment in better shape than we currently have, both for ourselves and for future generations."

According to the biologist is needed "because more and consume more and is reaching levels of use of natural resources and our planet can not sustain."

Martinez added that "in addition to eating well, it generates a lot of garbage, that is not able to cleanse itself. Although it appears that society is beginning to realize that something must be done with all this waste, so we are fighting, from All administrations, so we call the three 'r': Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Throughout the exhibition explained the actions being undertaken in this regard and which is due to launch.

Mari Carmen Martinez provided data on the current situation, "as an example in the U.S. know that if it continues to consume at a pace that makes it would take three planets to continue to sustain that level. In Europe we do not reach such high levels, but another planet would need a means to keep that consumer, but we just have this planet earth, so we must try to reduce that consumption, "he said, adding that" in addition to eating well, it generates a lot of garbage, each of us generates more 10 tons of garbage a year, making it necessary to act. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla