An IDP from Mariupol joined the beach cleanup in Italy. Photo.

An IDP from Mariupol joined the beach cleanup in Italy. Photo.
Katerina Belousova

As part of the global campaign, volunteers removed 3.6 million kg of plastic per day

In Italy, eco-activists, including Valentina Abalmasova, an IDP from occupied Mariupol, removed more than 500 kg of garbage from the beach of Forte Dei Marmi in Tascana.

The action involved 39 volunteers, Abalmasova wrote on her Facebook page.

"This is my first such event in a long time. It's like a kind of therapy. Healing through the purification of nature," she wrote.

As you know, before the occupation, Abalmasova headed the Green Council at the executive committee of the city council in Mariupol.

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The campaign was part of an initiative by Plastic Free, an association that fights plastic pollution. According to the organization's website, volunteers removed 3.6 million kilograms of plastic and other waste in one day. More than 260 thousand volunteers took part in the campaign.

Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in June 2022, internally displaced Ukrainians cleaned up the Fiftieth Anniversary Park in Brussels, Belgium. In this way, they tried to express their gratitude to the country for its support and hospitality.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, in April 2022, in the Czech Republic, three Ukrainian families, in gratitude for the kindness and warm shelter, removed garbage from Olomouc Lake and arranged places for recreation.

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