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The Amalfi Coast becomes plastic free – Italian Cuisine

The Amalfi Coast is active in safeguarding its wonderful heritage and sustainable tourism: after Cetara, Ravello and Atrani, Vietri sul Mare also says goodbye to disposable plastic

Disposable plastic will be prohibited a Vietri sul Mare. The town that acts as a gateway to the Amalfi Coast becomes plastic free: all commercial and craft activities, as well as tourism organizations, will no longer be able to sell disposable plastic foods and beverages.

The order is already valid from September, the month during which the activities may run out of stocks and warehouse deposits. From the 1st October the ban will be absolute, under penalty of € 25 to € 500.

Vietri sul mare is not the first municipality on the Amalfi Coast to adapt in advance to the legislation of theEuropean Union which foresees the elimination of disposable plastic objects by 2021. During this year, Cetara, Ravello, minors, Atrani have already joined together in the fight against pollution, becoming plastic free. An action necessary to preserve the health of the environment and man, as well as the breathtaking beauty of the places on the Amalfi Coast.

Plastic Free Amalfi Coast

Many initiatives to clean up the cities, the beaches and the sea.

During the summer Litter Hunter he chased waste along the coast: it is a system consisting of an aerial drone, an operations center and a marine robot, conceived by a Campania start-up.
Meanwhile, from August, the catamaran Marine Litter patrol the area every day, traveling from Positano to Vietri sul Mare and vice versa.

Another novelty is Junker, an app available in 10 languages and provided to municipalities to inform citizens and tourists about proper waste sorting.

All the hotels they are eliminating plastic bottles, in favor of water dispensers, glass bottles or water bottles. Moreover, the courtesy kit is replaced by distributors or disposable kits in recycled plastic, with the aim of starting up a local chain of production of essences, to recover the waste from lemon processing.

Finally, in the schools of the Coast will be present from September water dispensers and children will be provided with water bottles.

India, opens the garbage cafe, which offers food in exchange for recycled plastic – Italian Cuisine

Built in a former bus shelter, it provides a full meal in exchange for a pound of garbage, or a free breakfast for 500 grams of waste.

Food in exchange for recycled plastic. India has just launched its first "garbage cafe": Built in a former bus shelter and inspired by other similar projects in Belgium and Cambodia, it opens in the city of Ambikapur, in the central state of Chhattisgarh. Provides a full meal in exchange for a pound of garbage, or a free breakfast for 500 grams of waste.

More than half of the 1.4 billion Indian citizens live in poverty: for many, managing to feed their families is a daily challenge. According to Global Hunger Index 2018, India suffers from a level of hunger classified as "serious" and continues to have one of the highest rates of child malnutrition in the world. The approximately 195 million undernourished Indians represent a quarter of the global hunger burden, according to UN data.

But the country must also face the great problem of plastic waste: every day 26 thousand tons are generated. A kilo of plastic, which can usually be collected in a couple of hours, can be exchanged for a curry dish with rice, lentils and a papadum focaccia. For half a kilo, customers of the garbage cafe can instead receive a breakfast based on samosas, lentil buns or stuffed buns.

The collected plastic is then sent to a recycling plant that turns it into granules, to be used for road paving. In India, especially in rural areas, there are more than 34 thousand kilometers of roads made of plastic: this type of material is increasingly popular because it makes the streets more resistant to the scorching temperatures of the country.

Just last year, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, pledged to eliminate all disposable plastics by 2022. This promise represents an important goal, because India's economy is the fastest growing one global. And, in 2015, only 14% of the plastic waste produced in the world was recycled.

13 rooms give up non-recyclable plastic – Italian Cuisine

The central square is the first plastic free in Italy: in 13 exercises, from the beginning of the month, only reusable or recyclable and compostable products are used

Never again a glass or a non-recyclable saucer, in the very central Piazza dei Signori, in Padua. Thirteen rooms, including bars, pizzerias and fast food restaurants have decided, since the beginning of the month, to definitively ban all that disposable plastic, which is used only once before becoming a polluting waste.

In these exercises they will be used, from now on, exclusively reusable products, such as ceramic plates, glass cups and steel cutlery, or even disposable products, but only if they are completely recyclable and compostable, and then made of PLA (the bioplastic produced with raw materials such as corn, wheat, beetroot or other cereals).

The proposal was launched during one of the meetings of the owners of the thirteen local, and immediately liked even the municipal administration. «It is an important gesture that demonstrates the environmental responsibility of exhibitors, willing to face even higher company costs, in order to help the environment ", confirms Erminio Alajmo, president of the Provincial Public Association (Appe). The initiative, which anticipates the times of the European Directive against disposable plastic, can also be re-proposed in other cities, to contribute decisively to environmental sustainability.

On the other hand, according to the latest survey Beach litter 2019 of Legambiente, which has monitored 93 Italian coastlines, 10 waste passes every step on Italian beaches. IS 81% is really represented by plastic with which the disposable objects such as bottles, dishes, straws and envelopes are produced, as confirmed by the report. "Every hundred meters of beach we cross 45 bottles e 34 plastic tableware: plates, glasses, cutlery and straws. Items we use for just a few minutes but which, if not properly disposed of, can pollute forever. Indeed the risk is that, if dispersed in the environment, they will fragment into billions of microplastics that can easily disperse in the sea and equally easily contaminate the food chain ".