#BastaPlasticainMare, mid-August flashmob on the Romagna Riviera

A special mid-August also of civil and environmental commitment, the one that is celebrated in 2021 by the sea on the Romagna Riviera starting from Rimini: bathers will be invited to the shore with a plastic object in hand (shovel, bucket, fin, life jacket) to be waved in the air at 12 o’clock to the cry: ‘no more plastic in the sea’. From Sunday 8 August, the historic Publiphono, the famous loudspeaker created to find lost children and spread throughout the Riviera, has been broadcasting a singular spot: from the voice of a young environmentalist the heartfelt request is made so that all guests go of the beaches, at the stroke of midday on Sunday 15 August participate in the FlashMob #BastaPlasticainMare. A cry of pain for the Adriatic, also a spur to innovation and the concrete commitment of the territories and people who have their main resource in the sea.The event / testimony is organized by the Basta Plastica in Mare association, a network born in Rimini to promote research and innovation, reduce the use of plastic and prevent its dispersion: a scourge to be stopped immediately that poisons land and sea and all species, animals, humans and plants. “We thought we needed a choral testimony of Ferragosto to give it a voice, made by all those who enjoy its habitat during moments of leisure: ‘in the nature of the sea’ precisely, as we would like it to be. In an era of pandemic more than ever, since ‘you cannot live healthy in a sick body’, as the then spokesman for the 2030 Agenda Enrico Giovannini often reminded us “, says Manuela Fabbri, president of Basta Plastica in Mare Aps.” sea ​​is a common good of enormous importance in the ecosystem that needs to be defended and protected, for which everyone is called to do their part – he continues – Although the decision makers and all of us are now bombed and all too aware of the ecological disaster that plastic is creating in every part of the world, especially in the poorest countries, we just despair of it “.” Purposely thrown and transported into the seas and oceans, the microplastic becomes plankton and feeds marine fauna, evaporates in snow and rain , it is in the turtle feces but what is worse in the human placenta. One wonders who is really taking action to provide you with a concrete remedy. That it is no longer possible to try to collect it, nor that the solution can be recycled, the most accredited technicians and experts affirm in unison. It is immediately necessary – underlines Fabbri – a reversal of the trend for the production and consumption model, drastically reducing its use. The professors of three universities will discuss this and much more together with the best experts from all over Italy in the Summer Camp at the end of August La Natura del Mare “.” Greenpeace which recently from Ancona to Bari monitored the Adriatic, a closed sea, little more than a large lake, in a forthcoming report it will present alarming data, especially for the large quantity of socks / nets dispersed by the numerous and intensive mussel farms. We intend to give the sea that voice that so far no one has really wanted to hear. The sea requires rules and respect and to do so it is necessary to promote protected areas at sea, just as it happens on land for natural parks “, concludes the president of the Basta Plastica in Mare association. To pursue this aim, the Summer Camp ends on Saturday 28 August with the ecological exhortation to swim: 7 km and a half of strokes around the Natural Park of Monte San Bartolo. An interregional event between Romagna and Marche, from Cattolica to Fiorenzuola di Focara (Pesaro / Urbino), an unspoiled beach loved by environmentalists who they constantly clean up the plastic that comes in large quantities from the mussel farm that extends into the sea right there in front.