Cahuita National Park in the Costa Rican Caribbean will become the first “inclusive beach” with a ramp that will facilitate access for the disabled population through the building of walkways on the sand made of recycled plastic bottle lids.
The structures made of recyclable material will make Costa Rica the first country with accessible beaches in the Central American region, but most importantly it will make the life of the disabled population easier and better.
To achieve this goal, ProParques association is collecting plastic bottle lids with the help of the Red Cross committees around the country and the different locations of the University of Costa Rica, faculties, student associations, cafeterias, labs, clinics and investigation centers are some of the spaces that will be collecting the plastic lids within the University.
“In addition to collecting material to build the walkways for the Cahuita National Park, this campaign seeks to promote a higher conscience in the consumers when it comes to the classification of single use plastic, one of the materials that produces highest contamination and that in its majority ends up in the oceans”, says the information released by the University of Costa Rica.
So far, over 1000 kilograms of plastic lids have been collected by the University in a campaign that will carry on through December 5 in this institution.
The Red Cross will continue to receive the material through July 2019.
The plastic lids received are those of hard plastic number 2, 4 and 5 (bottle lids) as well as those of tooth paste, deodorants, juices, milk boxes, cleaning products, among others.
The Association Costa Rican Network of Accessible Tourism also launched a similar initiative some months back with the campaign “Dona Tapa” (Donate Lid) which intends to build retractable walkways of recycled plastic bottle lids for as many beaches as possible in the country, starting with those that have received the recognition of the program Ecological Blue Flag of the Costa Rican Aqueduct and Sewag
The structures made of recyclable material will make Costa Rica the first country with accessible beaches in the Central American region, but most importantly it will make the life of the disabled population easier and better.
To achieve this goal, ProParques association is collecting plastic bottle lids with the help of the Red Cross committees around the country and the different locations of the University of Costa Rica, faculties, student associations, cafeterias, labs, clinics and investigation centers are some of the spaces that will be collecting the plastic lids within the University.
“In addition to collecting material to build the walkways for the Cahuita National Park, this campaign seeks to promote a higher conscience in the consumers when it comes to the classification of single use plastic, one of the materials that produces highest contamination and that in its majority ends up in the oceans”, says the information released by the University of Costa Rica.
So far, over 1000 kilograms of plastic lids have been collected by the University in a campaign that will carry on through December 5 in this institution.
The Red Cross will continue to receive the material through July 2019.
The plastic lids received are those of hard plastic number 2, 4 and 5 (bottle lids) as well as those of tooth paste, deodorants, juices, milk boxes, cleaning products, among others.
The Association Costa Rican Network of Accessible Tourism also launched a similar initiative some months back with the campaign “Dona Tapa” (Donate Lid) which intends to build retractable walkways of recycled plastic bottle lids for as many beaches as possible in the country, starting with those that have received the recognition of the program Ecological Blue Flag of the Costa Rican Aqueduct and Sewag
