SEO/BirdLife y Ecoembes together with Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) want citizens do not throw waste into the gutters during your Easter trips.
So, within the framework of Libera project have launched the campaign Littering on the road never leads to a good place.ask citizens not to throw waste into the gutters during their Easter trips.
Take even more precautions when activities take place in natural environments due, above all, to the contamination and destruction that it entails
The initiative insists on the importance of taking even more precautions when the activities take place in natural environments due, above all, to the contamination and destruction that it entails.
“At LIBERA, we want to insist, call for action and encourage everyone to join our movement of liberators to prevent, collect, teach and inform to find solutions to rubbish”, added the coordinator of the LIBERA project in Ecoembes, Sara Güemes.
Every year in Europe between 2 and 9 million vertebrates are killed by vehicles and a large part of them as a result of garbage deposited on shoulders or ditches
However, the coordinator of the LIBERA Project at SEO/BirdLife, Miguel Muñoz, has pointed out that, although there are “gaps in knowledge” about it, each year in Europe between 2 and 9 million vertebrates are killed by vehicles, a large part of them as consequence of garbage deposited on shoulders or ditches.
“Many of them, carrion birds mainly, they are attracted by the organic remains thrown by the occupants of the vehicles. Not only is it an environmental problem, but only on Extremadura roads, in 2022, will there were four accidents a day due to the running over of fauna.”, Muñoz pointed out.
fire risk
In addition, they have accompanied this campaign with a report The impact of garbage in the ditches (1) where they state that the “uncivil behavior” is one of the biggest factors when it comes to addressing this problem and they warn of the fire hazard posed by throwing poorly extinguished butts or remains of crystals.
For LIBERA, awareness, prevention and the collaboration of all citizens are “fundamental” tools to avoid this type of situation.
Within the framework of the project, the two entities have announced a form for citizens to indicate the existence of garbage black dotsthose places with an accumulation of waste in nature that cannot be collected by volunteers and require the work of the authorities or administration for its removal.
The LIBERA project has other initiatives to which municipalities that wish to enhance its natural heritage and make its neighbors and visitors aware of the impact of nature. Thus, the #MiPuebloSinBasuraleza initiative has the participation of a total of 560 adherent municipalities that fight against this type of waste in their natural environments.
References
- (1) The impact of garbage in the ditches. LIBERA project.