Young Greens hit the beaches

YOUNG environmentalists will hit the beaches today, whatever the weather, in an attempt to set a good example by cleaning them up.

The youth wing of the Cyprus Greens movement has organised clean-up campaigns for Ayios Georgios tou Alamanou beach in Limassol and the beach at Fontana Amarosa in the Akamas.

The clean-up is part of a wider ‘Clean Mediterranean’ campaign, organised for a fourth year by the Italian environmental group Legabiente.

Similar clean-ups will be conducted simultaneously at more than 300 beaches in at least 16 Mediterranean countries.

The Young Greens claim that “the Mediterranean has been chosen to highlight the reality that the sea that encircles us faces a serious pollution problem which cannot be confined to the waters of specific countries, and which must be solved through organised collective action”.

The clean-up crews will meet at 10.30am in Limassol at Ayios Georgios, and in Paphos at 8.45am at Latchi port from where they will be taken to Fontana Amarosa by boat.

Members of the public are more than welcome to join in, the greens say.

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