Let’s clean the world, 80 kg of waste collected in Florence with Anbi and Legambiente
A cleaner city thanks to the great environmental volunteer initiative that this year celebrated its thirty years. Anbi Toscana and Legambiente Toscana have made an appointment with the citizens today, 28 October, on the cycle-pedestrian walkway of the Isolotto for the final morning of the initiatives linked to the national campaign “Let’s Clean the World”.
The initiative was attended by the president of Anbi Toscana Marco Bottino, the president of Quartiere 4 Mirko Dormentoni, the president of Legambiente Toscana Fausto Ferruzza and the director Federico Gasperini. Legambiente has provided the necessary cleaning material; then the groups were sorted that illustrated the area to remove plastic and waste, thus making it cleaner and more liveable. Among them also the Angeli del Bello of Florence and various citizens of the neighborhood: together about 80 kg of waste were collected, including pieces of bicycles and household appliances.
This was the event resulting from the collaboration protocol signed in the months between the body that first discovered the Tuscan Reclamation Consortia and the Management of the environmental association, with the aim of promoting awareness-raising initiatives on issues related to sustainability, dissemination energy, renewable events due to the climate crisis.
“This initiative sanctions the official launch of the collaboration with Legambiente, a synergy that has been going on for some time and to which the collaboration protocol signed in recent months has given official status – comments Marco Bottino, president of Anbi Toscana -. By the Consortia it is a further step in the direction of safeguarding the environment, which we have grafted into our daily work to protect waterways “.
“We are very satisfied with the collaboration with the Reclamation Consortia of our region, in a particularly serious phase of the global climate crisis, because it seals a synergy that can only bear positive results, in terms of civic superiority, participation and commitment. operational to improve the situation of all environmental matrices; – declares Fausto Ferruzza, president of Legambiente Toscana – and that this partnership is highlighted precisely in the thirty years of our campaign “Let’s Clean the World”, only makes us proud and happy “.
“Let’s Clean the World is not only an important concrete and symbolic event at the same time – explained the president of the District 4 of Florence, Mirko Dormentoni – but it is now a true institution of the environmentalism of doing. We are happy to have realized today, in its 30th anniversary, this participatory initiative on our territory, between the Isolotto and the Argingrosso, on the banks of our river, a fundamental piece of our neighborhood, of our city, of great environmental and naturalistic value “.
Source: Press office