Venice, the first city in Italy to join the WWF Plastic Smart Cities Initiative, now also aims to raise awareness among accommodation facilities in preventing and reducing the use of single-use and unnecessary plastic with the launch of the “Venezia Turismo Plastic Smart” brochure
What impact does tourism have on the “cleanliness” of a city? Certainly very high and those who live in areas with a strong tourist attraction know well what it means to have to deal with masses of visitors who are too often undisciplined.
Without a doubt, what is needed is a clear synergy between inhabitants, institutions and accommodation facilities, if only, as far as we are concerned, during the high season the increase in population along the Mediterranean coasts determines an increase of up to 30% in waste production which, obviously, in turn causes a greater risk of dispersion into the environment (not surprisingly, on the Mediterranean coasts, marine waste increases by up to 40% during the peak tourist season).
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So what to do? Starting from the common sense of collaboration. Thus the city of Venice – the first city in Italy to join the WWF Plastic Smart Cities Initiative – launches “Venice Tourism Plastic Smart”, one brochures aimed at raising awareness accommodation facilities in preventing and reducing the use of single-use and unnecessary plastic.
The guide is illustrated by Fernando Cobelo and developed by WWF with the collaboration of the Veritas Group and the support of the Blue Planet Virginia Böger Foundation, and is aimed at hoteliers and all those who, in various capacities, host tourists in the city. The objective is to inform but above all to concretely highlight all those actions necessary to overcome a difficult but possible challenge: reduce your plastic footprint.
Reducing one’s footprint and combating the dispersion of plastic in Nature is a very current issue: yesterday the negotiations of the penultimate round of negotiations of the United Nations (INC-4) for a global treaty on pollution ended in Ottawa, Canada. from plastic.
The negotiation process was slow but the outcome was quite positive, with further progress on developing rules to ban the most problematic and avoidable plastic products. However, important questions such as the inclusion within the Treaty of measures to reduce the production and consumption of plastic still remain open.
The path to the final INC-5 negotiations in Busan, Republic of Korea, begins now and will last 7 months until November this year.
You can find the “Venezia Turismo Plastic Smart” brochure HERE.
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