The Spanish basketball international Marc Gasol has joined Greenpeace’s campaign against plastic, with which the environmental organization demands from large companies less production of disposable packaging and more legislation from administrations to tackle the global environmental problem.
As explained by Greenpeace in a statement, each year around eight million tons of plastic reach the oceans, only 9% is recycled.
In Spain, only 25.4% of plastic packaging was recovered in 2016, most of it (63%) was not recycled and went to landfills (787,059 tons) or incinerated (172,293 tons) causing pollution in the environment, depending on the organization.
Gasol, NBA champion this year with the Toronto Raptors, and very aware of this environmental problem, wanted to join the Maldito Plástico (# MalditoPlástico) campaign and learn first-hand about the work of the environmental organization.
Likewise, the player has stated that he hopes to add more colleagues from the sports field to the initiative.
Greenpeace recalls that you can “win the game” against plastics taking into account, among other aspects, the commitment of companies and supermarkets to put an end to single-use. “This corporate responsibility must focus on betting on reusable ones.”
Invites consumers to join in a change in habits, because they have “the ability and power” to demand much more sustainable sales models, event organization and lifestyles, aimed at minimizing the amount of waste generated to get away especially from the single-use “harmful culture”.
The organization also requires a strong commitment from the Government and administrations to adopt sufficiently effective legislation to stop plastic pollution.
Likewise, it demands the transposition of the European Directive on single-use plastics in an “ambitious and effective way” in the next two years, a situation that will be key to moving towards the end of the pollution produced by this material.
Promote reuse with the container return and return system (SDDR) and the sale of bulk products.
Finally, Greenpeace recommends “not wasting resources, but using only those strictly necessary, giving durability and good use to things and repairing those that break.”
Remember that it can be consumed without having to buy, encouraging the loan, exchange or rent, and taking advantage of discarded materials. EFE