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The City Council and Abraham Project work in an awareness campaign to encourage recycling
To promote recycling of clothing, footwear and toys, the city of Caravaca de la Cruz and Abraham Project are conducting various awareness raising activities covered by an agreement of cooperation.
The latest initiative, presented this morning at the weekly market, is the installation of cardboard containers in local businesses for citizens to participate in work make sense "and deposit the clothing that no longer use.
The Councillor for Environment, Antonia M ª Álvarez, said that this is another initiative, launched in collaboration with the Directorate General for Environmental Quality, to provide citizens with the recycling of waste.
In this regard, he recalled that stems from an agreement that the City has with Abraham Project are installed at various points of the town and districts a total of 30 containers of clothing, toys and footwear.
In addition, talks have been held to raise awareness in schools and sewing and repairing clothes and remain open to the public two shops where you can buy tracks second-hand clothes.
"With these actions we pursue a twofold social and environmental, because it gets the job creation among groups at risk of social exclusion and prevents the discharge of materials that can be reused," said the head of the municipal area of Environment , who has taken the opportunity to report that so far in 2010 packaging recycling has increased by 6%, 8% glass and cardboard 2% over the same period in 2009.
From Caravaca Merchants Association have supported this initiative by sending information to traders caravaqueños to accede to the Convention for the preservation of the environment and the generation of social economy.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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