LEGAMBIENTE: Yesterday, today and tomorrow the 'Clean up the world' campaign.
"Let's stop hiding the problems“: Is the slogan of the 2009 edition of Clean Up the World, the three days of volunteering for the environment that kicked off yesterday throughout Italy and will end on Sunday with thousands of volunteers committed to cleaning up abandoned waste streets, squares, gardens and parks. Founded in Sydney, Australia in 1989, Clean Up the World is the most important environmental volunteer campaign in the world: a collective action that involves 40 million people every year in 120 countries around the world. Brought to Italy in 1993 by Legambiente since then it has been organized throughout the national territory in collaboration with associations, committees and city administrations.
Among the numerous initiatives today, in Rome the volunteers will meet at La Rustica in the Parco Caduti Marcinelle for the cleaning of the area and the arrangement of benches, flower beds. To the initiative Mayor Alemanno will participate together with the general manager of Legambiente Rossella Muroni, to the president and director of Legambiente Lazio Lorenzo Parlati and Cristiana Have them. In Lombardy, in Lovere (Bg) in the Tinazzo Gorge Park the maintenance of the paths will be carried out and the creation of new, land restoration works, mowing of terraces, securing the rocky parts, waste collection: an ecological day dedicated to multiculturalism organized in collaboration with the Municipality of Castro and the local foreign communities. In Piedmont, in Turin, the cleaning initiatives will take place in San Salvario and Porta Palazzo, where different ethnic groups and cultures coexist. In Verbania the volunteers will clean up some border paths between the municipalities of Belgirate and Lesa, helped by a group of ten inmates from the Verbania Prison. In Campania, major cleaning in Afragola where the affected area will be that of the soccer field of the Towers, at the Salicelle, which will be cleaned and returned to the children of the neighborhood. Appointment also to Fisciano where cleaning is scheduled along the road that leads from the hamlet of Gaiano di Fisciano to the Frassineto Naturalistic Area to sensitize the institutions on the state of decay of the country's extra-urban roads. In Tuscany, an initiative organized together with Federparchi is planned in Sassalbo, a hamlet of Fivizzano in Lunigiana (Ms), a mountain village, seat of the Apennine National Park. In Puglia, in Santeramo in Colle (Ba) the cleaning of the Pietà wood, the Lama di Lupo pine forest, the Mesola pine forest and the pine forest adjacent to the Parata forest in the Alta Murgia National Park is scheduled in the morning with the participation of elementary and middle schools. In Taranto, on the other hand, three classes of the Liceo Aristosseno will participate in the cleaning of the pine forest of Marechiaro. On Sunday 27, however, in Abruzzo in Tempera, a fraction of L'Aquila heavily hit by the earthquake and located on the Vera river, the volunteers will be involved, together with the president of Legambiente Vittorio Cogliati Dezza, in cleaning the river banks and restoring the furnishings urban. In Tuscany in Florence, the three days of cleaning will end together with the immigrant communities of Peru, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Romania, Moldavia and many others, who carry out the activity of caregiver for Florentine families. In Sicily in Agrigento some areas of the Addolorata park will be cleaned up turned into landfills. In Milan, in Lombardy, together with speleologists, cleaning of the Tempietto della Notte found under the hill of the park of Villa Finzi. In Rome, Lazio, cleaning operations at the Monte Mario station in via Cesare Castiglioni. At Poligano a mare in Puglia, cleaning of the seabed with the collaboration of the diving team of the State Police. It also continues the collaboration between Legambiente and the Italian speleological society, which over the weekend gives life to Clean the dark: cleaning initiatives in some Italian caves and reporting of environmental risk situations. In Puglia, for example, the Apulian Speleological Federation wants to concentrate the recovery of illegal waste in the area between Cassano delle Murge and Santeramo in Colle in the Ivy Cave and in the Grava Giustino. In Campania, on the other hand, the Campania Speleological Federation will carry out two days of cleaning activities together with Legambiente and documentation of the environmental emergencies of the Marmuriata cave in the Lattari Mountains Regional Park.
Source: Apcom