3 comments so far.ERRC cadets fill 28 garbage bags during Fort Chambray clean-up
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Cadets from the Emergency Response Rescue Corps of Gozo, spent time last Saturday collecting rubbish in the area around Fort Chambray in Ghajnsielem.
The event was organised as part of the programme of events for the European Week For Waste Reduction.
Many organisations all around Europe, including the ERRC, organised various events concerning the importance of reducing waste. "It is very important to learn about the threat of waste and how to handle waste properly as early as possible, the ERRC said. For this reason the ERRC cadets participated in this event to increase their awareness regarding this issue.
At a previous meeting an ERRC volunteer from Spain taught the cadets in a short lecture about the hazards of pollution through waste and how to prevent it. After this theoretical part, the cadets went to a practical session this Saturday afternoon.
Although the area around Fort Chambray is very beautiful, it is also very polluted. The ERRC Cadets cleaned it up by removing as much rubbish as possible and it took more than 4 hours to collect 28 large garbage bags.
Well done to the ERRC Cadets! But why do people feel it necessary to dump rubbish in this way?
It is such lazy behaviour. Why wont people take their rubbish home or dispose of it properly. Yes well done to the cadets and to people like the English couple who climbed down into a piece of land at the top of Xlendi near the back entrance to the Xlendi Hotel and filled many black sacks of rubbish . They have been mentioned before. Please everyone dont expect others to keep this Island clean.
Well done. It is such a shame that uneducated people dump their rubbish everywhere. It is quite unacceptable and when was the last fine imposed for this anti social behaviour?