The Department of Environment of the City of Jumilla has prepared a program of activities to commemorate the World Environment Day which falls on June 5.
The program of events was presented by the Mayor and Councillor for the Environment Francisco Abellán and support technician Ana Dolores Guardiola.
This will take place from 27 May to 3 June.
The aim of this campaign is to motivate people to become active agents of sustainable development and promote cooperation.
The City of Jumilla, in its commitment to the environment has organized these activities focused on creating a common area, sustained over time, that will identify, develop and environmental concerns will be resolved.
The campaign slogan is "For you, for him," explained Francisco Abellán and it has been implicated in "schools, colleges, the social work of the Caixa, the CAM and the joint venture Aguas de Jumilla".
Similarly, the mayor thanked Ecoembes collaboration "that allows us to continue working on public awareness for the Environment."
Ana Dolores Guardiola announced the program of activities to be developed.
On May 27 there will be a visit to the recycling plant Caudete glass and in the afternoon from 20:30 Joaquín Araujo offer, in the CAM, a lecture on "Why we must preserve the environment ".
There will be a tour on May 30, the Hoya de la Sima and Celia mines, departing at 9:30 Abastos market.
In the afternoon, starting at 19:30 there will be a concert by the hand of the Association Friends of Music Jumillano entitled "Music for the Planet" which will take place at the Botanical Garden of Pueblo Nuevo.
On June 1, from 9.30 in April Patras Association will hold a conference entitled "In Search of a second chance."
That same day, at 20.00 hours, there will be another conference "Juncellus, 23 years defending Jumilla Environment."
On 3 June, activities will begin at 9.30 am with a Storyteller "The Green Goblin" and that afternoon, Hinneni group will give a talk on "The sport of adventure and the Environment" and will screen two documentaries.
Finally, the day will be held June 5, from 10:00, environmental workshops in the Paseo Poet Lorenzo Guardiola.
The Technical Environment acknowledged the collaboration of different councils to develop these activities and indicated that visits, interested persons should contact the department by calling 968 78 20 20 extension 222 or sending an email to environment @ jumilla.org
Work and projects in the area of Environment
The mayor said the work is done from the environmental area is a very important, but unknown. "
For example, said Francisco Abellán "now working on the current problems of rosemary and thyme and its collection, for their approval, it works closely with the local police on issues of noise, measurements, etc, are prepared numerous reports affect many councils about the Environment, working on reconstruction of forest roads, reforestation of areas in the municipality, information campaigns, as well as numerous actions for the benefit of environmental care, monitoring of groundwater, working with Community Irrigation Miraflores, working on projects the Segura basin cleaning the gullies, among many others. "
In terms of projects, Abellán referred "to the possibility that the Ministry give us money to hire women to clean public places or peripheral municipality as well as pending issues such as the inert treatment plant, whose feasibility study is approved, the closure of parts of the current landfill of municipal solid waste, extinction of this economic relationship and the development of the specifications for the new plant and solid waste collection thereof. "
The mayor also said that from this council, "We have an aspiration that is the collection of municipal solid waste at source, in the home, being the city that would separate the different elements of the garbage," he said and recalled that this The latter was a pilot project was done in the San Antón years through the company Sana.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla