The use of disposable or so-called single use plastic has become a common topic of conversation and is a frequent theme of all those engaged in attempting to preserve their local environment. Plastic pollution has also captured an enormous amount of attention, especially when it comes to human damage to the marine world. Vrgorac, a town in Split-Dalmatia County, has stepped up.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 20th of January, 2020, on Monday, Vrgorac Mayor Ante Pranic gave the directors of the town’s numerous institutions instructions on the decision to prohibit the use of plastic packaging in the town’s official institutions as well as at during Vrgorac’s various events held throughout the course of the year, stating that they should be replaced by glass and also by much more environmentally friendly, biodegradable paper packaging.
In addition to the aforementioned, praiseworthy move, Vrgorac’s mayor is also putting a stop to the consumption of bottled water at work meetings held within Vrgorac’s local government and at during Town Council meetings. These bottles are all to easy to purchase, drink from and throw away without a second thought about how the wasted plastic builds up and negatively affects our local environment and our entire planet as a whole.
In the future, drinking water should be served in glass jars from Vrgorac’s water supply network, removing the need for harmful plastic bottles which don’t break down.
All establishments in Vrgorac will, owing to this decision, receive special waste disposal containers by Friday this week in order to facilitate the proper separation of all of the collected paper, to make sure things are recycled and disposed of in a safe and correct manner, with the least damage being inflicted on the local environment.
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