The Environmental Education Program, promoted annually by the Cieza City Council in the town's schools, concluded this Monday, coinciding with World Environment Day. The Department of the Environment, as usual, organized two activities for first and second grade students, which, on this occasion, took place at the Miguel de Cervantes and Madre del Divino Pastor schools.
Monitors from the La Casa Azul Association invited students from both centers to decorate a small container with drawings alluding to nature. The container would then contain a seed in soil to develop into a radish, a herbaceous plant with a fleshy stem and a fleshy, edible root.
Municipal sources explain that this year's World Environment Day focuses on a world without plastic pollution. According to data from the United Nations Environment Program, more than 400 million tons of plastic are produced worldwide, half of which are designed for single-use purposes. And much of this plastic waste ends up in lakes, rivers, and oceans.
In this sense, the same sources add, "it's a situation that has led to the proliferation of microplastics, which we already find in many of the foods we eat, in the water we drink, and even in the air we breathe." These are some of the messages that resonated with students and faculty at Miguel de Cervantes and Madre del Divino Pastor on the occasion of this very special day.
Source: Cieza City Council.