Pilar De La Horadada Participates In Ecovidrio Green Flag Contest

The Pilar de la Horadada Town Hall and much than 70 different section hospitality establishments successful nan municipality are gearing up to participate successful this year’s Ecovidrio campaign, pinch nan nonsubjective of gaining nan coveted “Green Flag of Sustainability” prize from nan biology organisation. Pilar de la Horadada will beryllium conscionable 1 of nan 48 Valencian municipalities competing this year, each successful nan sanction of shrinking their c footprint and making nan Costa much sustainable, time by day.

Pilar de la Horadada Goes Green

The title focuses connected nan recycling of solid bottles and containers, based connected a constituent strategy that takes into relationship respective factors: nan accrued measurement of solid containers recycled compared to nan erstwhile year, nan percent of section hospitality businesses participating successful narration to nan municipality, and nan committedness shown by section officials, governing bodies, and citizens to get connection retired astir nan campaign. More than 3,750 section establishments successful Valencia will beryllium participating to effort and summation nan greenish emblem for their community.

A Tempting Incentive

A full of 10 Green Flags of Sustainability will beryllium awarded this year: 2 successful Catalonia, 2 successful Andalucía, 2 successful nan Balearic Islands, Murcia and Cantabria tin each person one, and finally, 2 successful nan Valencian community. These flags will beryllium displayed astatine nan Town Halls, arsenic a trophy for nan community’s efforts.

Additionally, arsenic a caller improvement for this year, nan municipalities that triumph a Green Flag will besides beryllium awarded pinch a beachfront cleaning work for their towns, organised by Ecovidrio successful collaboration pinch nan Paisaje Limpio organisation, a group that specialises successful akin biology events and activities.

The Green Flag of Sustainability title is borne of an urgent request to reside nan wastefulness of solid containers, particularly during nan summertime months; only astir a 3rd of nan full solid bottles and containers are utilized during highest season, and almost 50 per cent of nan solid discarded comes from nan hospitality assemblage (bars, restaurants, chiringuitos, and nan like).

Great Numbers, Green Numbers

In Spain, successful nan past version of nan Ecovidrio Green Flag competition, nan activity managed to spot much than 62,800 tonnes of solid containers recycled, a 16 per cent summation from nan erstwhile year, 2023. This prevented nan emanation of much than 36,000 tonnes of CO2 into nan atmosphere, nan balanced of removing nan circulation of much than 17,000 cars from nan roads. It besides saved 44,800 MWh of energy, balanced to almost €6 cardinal successful savings for nan country. Finally, it avoided nan extraction of much than 75,000 tonnes of earthy materials, which is adjacent to 7 times nan weight of nan Eiffel Tower. Glass tin besides beryllium infinitely recycled without losing quality, further positioning it arsenic a useful reusable assets that should beryllium prioritised during recycling projects and efforts.