On Friday the15th of December, the Embassy of The Kingdom of The Netherlands in close partnership with Ecovolis and the Tirana Municipality, will organize the “Clothing Bags Festival” at Cultural Centre TEN, starting from 09.30am. The goal of this project is the involvement of school children and parents as active citizens for a sustainable future, aiming to address the health and environmental problems Tirana is facing.
The usage of plastic bags in the city has strong impact on public health, environmental pollution and sustainable living. This initiative is dedicated to primary school children and the youth, but also aims to reach their parents by helping them starting to use cloth bags made from recyclable materials.
For this activity, cloth bags were distributed to seven different schools in Tirana, giving the students opportunity to draw their message or idea regarding the protection of the environment. The chosen participants will compete in a catwalk, where each school will be represented by their three best cloth bag ideas selected through internal contests.
This is one of many activities dedicated to environmental protection. Ecovolis previously hosted an activity making and distributing cloth bags for everyday use, while the Municipality of Tirana made supermarkets and smaller businesses sell plastic bags instead of giving them away in an attempt to minimize the number of people using them and failing to recycle them.
