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The Implica2 program of the Youth Council of the City of Cartagena will collaborate on an activity in which volunteering and environment shake hands.

A total of 55 young Implica2 will participate in citizen science project on marine debris of the European Environment Association organized by the Association of Active Tourism and Sustainable Marina de Cope and Navy We Care Association with the cooperation of the City of Cartagena.

Participants, including Erasmus students from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena are also work with Ocean Conservancy's methodology for data collection used annually in more than one hundred countries for more than half a million volunteers.

The results obtained in the Marina de Cope will become part of the growing bank of national and international data on marine debris.

All this for information about the type, composition and quantity of marine debris is essential for detailed a problem affecting the planet globally.

The problem of marine debris has not yet permeated most of society.

It is an issue which remains reserved for a minority, hence the need to coordinate efforts to create a social movement that is aware of this problem and which becomes the engine that enhances a change of habits.

TO PARTICIPATE

Those interested in participating can send an e-mail to implica2@ayto-cartagena.es with the following data: age, name, contact phone, email, ID or passport and shirt size.

Participants will travel in a bus will depart at 9:00 am Youth Resource Center of Cartagena or use their own means to get to the beach from the Tower of Cope, in the town of Aguilas, which begin activity 10:30.

At the end of the day volunteer, about 13:30 hours, the Navy Cope Association for Active Tourism and Sustainable offer an optional snack at their facilities, with a price of 4 euros.

The organization should wear comfortable clothes, appropriate footwear and a hat and coat and waterproofs if the weather is adverse.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena