Abolish Plastic on the Tremiti Islands

PLASTIC ABOLITION ON THE TREMITI ISLANDS

The march of the islands does not stop plastic freeDespite the obstacles that some Regional Administrative Courts (TAR) are attempting to impose on measures that clearly bear the hallmark of a fully sustainable choice, beneficial to everyone, including industry, which must innovate its products. These choices help avoid wasting beauty, places, the health, and well-being of entire communities of residents and guests.

Let's start with a map of the most important islands, both in the North and the South, which have chosen to eliminate the sale of any single-use plastic product, namely the infamous standard "disposable" cup-cutlery-plate package. Let's reconstruct this map, remembering that 90 percent of marine litter, both in water and on beaches, comes from plastic, including deadly microplastics.

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PLASTIC-FREE ISLANDS

They are no plastic the most important Campanian islands: Capri, Ischia, and Procida (partially). Also in the South, the sale of plastic has been banned on the Tremiti Islands. (which, as we will see in this article, represent the vanguard of the island sustainability movement plastic free). In Sicilia, they are pioneering islands against plastic, Lampedusa and Linosa, with the Egadi ready to do the sameor, except then the TAR tripped up. Red light for plastic on the island of San Pietro (Sardinia), and on the island of Elba (Tuscany), in particular in the municipalities of Marciana Marina and Campo nell'Elba.

As for the Regional Administrative Court (TAR), we're dealing with a classic Italian-style dance of rulings. One goes one way, one goes another. The Regional Administrative Courts of Puglia and Sicily rejected plastic-free seaside resorts. The Regional Administrative Courts of Abruzzo and Sardinia did the opposite.

And as we were saying, the wave of plastic-free islands starts right from Puglia and the Tremiti Islands.

abolition of plastic on the Tremiti Islands

PLASTIC-FREE ISLANDS

For the first time in Italy the plastic bags becomes outlaw in a whole archipelagoNo glasses, cutlery, dishes, food or drink containers. And starting next year, no bottles of mineral water.

We are at tremiti IslandsIn the province of Foggia, in the middle of the Adriatic Sea, four square kilometers of wonders, a small archipelago with 520 inhabitants during the winter and thousands of tourists in the summer months. Mayor Antonio Fentini has broken the deadlock and, without waiting for the protracted negotiations with the National Association of Italian Municipalities (ANCI) (which always end in nothing), has opened a new avenue: plastic-free islands in Italy.

ORDINANCE AGAINST PLASTIC ON THE TREMITI ISLANDS

Fentini's ordinance was born after reading a chilling CNR research precisely on the presence of microplastics since sea with Isole. It turned out, in fact, that if an Olympic swimming pool were filled with the waters of the Tremiti Islands, one would swim between 5.500 pieces of microplastics. Absurd.

FINES FOR PLASTIC USE ON THE TREMITI ISLANDS

The Tremiti ordinance provides fines from 50 to 500 euros for violators, but here it's not so much the amount of the fine that matters, but the impact it has on the local population and tourists. The classic picnics, where everything ends up with a mountain of plastic waste that's difficult to manage and dispose of, have disappeared. And it's only possible to use non-polluting material, biodegradable e compostable.

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STOP PLASTIC ON THE TREMITI ISLANDS

The mayor's measure is consistent with the very delicate balance of this territory. This area is part of the Gargano National Park and is largely a marine reserve. What sense did it make to allow the devastation of plastic use and abuse in such a place? The Tremiti Islands could become a model in Europe and ItalyThe Balearic Islands in Spain have decided something similar, but the measure will only come into force next year. Biblical times. Now, and without delay, other islands and other Italian archipelagos could follow the example of the Tremiti no plastic.

PLASTIC ABOLITION IN LAMPEDUSA AND LINOSA

An initiative, the one carried out on the Tremiti Islands, which also convinced the mayor of Lampedusa, Salvatore Martello: both Lampedusa that Linosa The sale and use of non-biodegradable disposable containers and tableware, as well as polyethylene takeaway bags, has been banned. This measure has facilitated the collection and, at the same time, limit plastic pollution in the sea.

The ordinance came into force on August 31st of last year. Among the many measures, shopping bags have been replaced by paper or canvas bags.

PLASTIC ABOLITION IN THE AEOLIAN ISLANDS

Even at islands Aeolian, in Sicily, plastic has been banned. In one of the three municipalities of theSalina islandMalva, Mayor Clara Rametta has signed an ordinance banning the sale of plastic cups, cutlery, plates, and straws starting July 15, 2018. Shopping bags must also be biodegradable everywhere. The mayor's move also stems from the latest findings of the Oceana expedition's Aeolian research: the seabed of the Sicilian archipelago is full of beautiful coral, but so much plastic waste, derived from household products, has never been seen before.

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