Councillor for Public Services, Maria Dolores Ruiz, accompanied by the Councillor for Health, Cati Pérez, led today the campaign "towelettes. Do not ever throw the toilet" at the Hospital Los Arcos del Mar Menor where their leaders promised to give publicity in hospital facilities, including staff, patients and visitors, as confirmed by the medical director of the area, Maria Soriano.
The campaign, sponsored by the City of San Javier, Hidrogea and Esamur, which is spreading through media, social networks, and through leaflets distributed in places especially busy as the beaches, has also come in the form of sticker to many toilets for public use of the area, with the main purpose to remind users that this type of wipes are not biodegradable.
Maria Dolores Ruiz said the information campaign aims to show a film language the negative effects of the fact shed wet wipes down the toilet, causing traffic jams in both the private sanitation and public, as well as causing economic cost overruns, which have encryption between 4 and 5 euros per person per year, cleaning and repair, if necessary, pumping stations driving the sewers to the treatment plant.
The medical director of Zone, Maria Soriano showed the support of the Hospital Los Arcos to this campaign by environmental consequences, which are related to health prevention and pledged to promote the correct use of such pulp products on site health.
The mayor of Public Service, Maria Dolores Ruiz, was convinced of the positive effects that the campaign since "there are still people who believe that the wipes are biodegradable because there are still some brands that advertised well in their packaging, although there studies show that would take hundreds of years to disappear. "
The wipes thrown into the toilet accumulate in the network forming what the campaign, national broadcast, called "the monster of the sewers" a lump of fabric that can have large proportions and whose jams can aggravate episodes of flooding.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier