Santos FC and Leão do Mar hold beach clean-up with EcoFaxina | OneFootball

Santos FC wrapped up the launch week of the Leão do Mar Institute with a cleanup of José Menino beach in Santos, supported by the EcoFaxina Institute. The initiative took place this Sunday (27) and included the participation of administrative manager Luiz Fernando Vella, Leão do Mar Institute president Patrícia Gorisch, organized supporters, Scouts of Brazil, the Sereias da Vila, and male and female youth players.

Luiz Fernando Vella highlighted the work carried out in partnership with the Institute. “The launch week of the Leão do Mar Institute was busy and full of care for the environment and the community, which is at the heart of what we envision for the project. Today, with the EcoFaxina Institute, we are able to conclude this first stage, and there is no place more symbolic than our beach in Santos. We will continue in partnership with the Leão do Mar Institute, certain that we are building a brilliant legacy for future generations.”

Leão do Mar Institute president Patrícia Gorisch was present and took part in the initiative. “All of our coastal cities end up feeling the effects of this degradation. And the importance of this cleanup action is to make an impact on the children and adults who were there. At first, the beach seems clean, but it is only a partial cleanup. To the naked eye, everything looks fine, until we start pulling out a buried straw, a bottle cap, and PET bottle waste. We combed the beach from nine to eleven, and in two hours we filled buckets with microplastics.”

There were 117 volunteers present at the 213th cleanup action carried out by the EcoFaxina Institute, collecting 5,554 pieces of waste, for a total of 34.55 kg.

William Rodriguez Schepis, president of the EcoFaxina Institute, celebrated everyone’s involvement. “Nearly 60% of the weight collected is plastic, and two-thirds of the items are fragments, pieces already broken down by the sun and the sea, on their way to becoming microplastics. Having the Sereias, the Meninos da Vila, and the scouts from the region side by side shows the mobilizing power that Santos has and what it can do for the coast. We will now bring this same approach inside Vila Belmiro, with a waste management and environmental education project together with the fans. And we will keep moving forward through forest citizenship, also embracing our mangroves.”

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.