2024-06-12 22:02:24
For the seventh consecutive yr, the Municipality of Ioannitan rewarded the efforts of the scholars and academics of the Municipality’s colleges, who participated within the “Let’s Recycle” motion, inside the Followgreen program.
The award ceremony happened on Thursday on the Cultural Area “Dim. Hatzis”, with the scholars beforehand having enjoyable within the environmental park of Followgreen.
The “Let’s Recycle” motion concerned 85 colleges, 9,600 college students whose, with the assistance of fogeys and academics, recycled in 5 streams of supplies (paper, plastic, aluminum, garments and batteries) and picked up roughly 30,000 kg of recyclable supplies. It’s value noting that the help of the colleges by the members of the municipal platform Followgreen of the Municipality of Ioannina was extraordinarily excessive, as a complete donation of 240,000 reward factors was made.
“If all of us adopted the instance of our college students and achieved solely 50% recycling and reuse in our Municipality, we’d handle to recycle greater than 23,000 tons/yr. Thus we would cut back burial and its prices by 30 euros per ton and in complete we’d save greater than 350,000 euros per yr. As well as, we’d shield the surroundings and the general public well being of our fellow residents, as these portions wouldn’t leak into the bottom, the ocean and our rivers”, stated the mayor of Ioannina Thomas Begas, who was unable to attend, in his message.
This yr, along with the sorting motion on the supply, which has been established in colleges, the visible motion “Meals on our plate or in our bin” was applied and awarded, by means of which the scholars highlighted the advantages of “Decreasing Meals Waste”, as and of “Sorting on the Supply in a Brown Meals Waste Bin”, creating brief movies (movies).
“Congratulations to all the youngsters, in addition to the dad and mom and academics who participated on this important initiative. Offering particular bins for the separate assortment of aluminum cans and rewarding one of the best efforts is the least we are able to do to encourage them to proceed. Each field, which fits into the fitting bin, saves vitality and pure assets and brings us nearer to a sustainable future for the subsequent generations”, stated the supervisor of “Each Field Counts” in Greece Irini Topouzidou.
The scholars have been congratulated in flip by the Deputy Mayor of Training, Lifelong Studying, Sports activities, Immigration Coverage, Younger Era and Volunteering, Stefanos Sintos, making particular point out of the academics, whom he characterised because the cornerstone of this success. “With out your help, we’d not have been capable of obtain such vital outcomes”, he emphasised.
The occasion was additionally attended by the deputy mayor of On a regular basis Life, Upkeep Initiatives, Greenery, Playgrounds – Stray Animals Petros Palaschas and the deputy mayor of Major Sector – Regional Improvement – Safety of the Lake and Vitality Aris Kassis, who in flip applauded the scholars for glorious effort by them.
On the a part of the Municipality of Ioannina, thanks have been expressed for the help of the motion and the providing of helpful presents to the colleges, to Eiforiki Epirou, the aluminum recycling program “Each Field Counts”, the clothes and footwear recycling program “Recycom”, the “Heracles Group of Firms” ” and battery administration firm “Fight”.