Coastal and bay clean-up on Earth day, Kotor 2019

On Saturday, the 20th of April 2019 in honor of Earth day, NGO Our action organized a coastal and bay clean-up event in the town of Kotor. The action included the are from the main police station to the main beach, all rain water channels going into the sea that are full of plastic, the river Skurda and well of Gurdic. In the project youth of the north of Montenegro, from NGO Euromost where included in order to raise awareness and participate in the clean-up. Other local partner organizations where: NGO Koltrina, the Cultural center “Nikola Djurkovic”, the tourist company of Kotor, the Kotor children’s festival, mountaineering club Vjeverica, and the Triathlon club Kotor. Assisting us in the activity was the Waste management company of Kotor, Kotor bay company with kayaks, and Rogan fruit with food and refreshments. The activity was partially funded by the JU Morsko dobro and partially by the BeMed foundation thru the project “Youth for a clean Adriatic”. This is the second clean-up activity within the project. The goal is an active, participative approach to raising awareness for a plastic free Mediterranean sea. 120 bags of trash was collected including fishing gear and netting, plastic and wooden beach furniture, and much more. We thank all the volunteers, participants, donors and sponsors for their support and participation. #BeMed #BeMedMontenegro #YouthforacleanAdriatic #MladizacistJadran #NVONasaAkcija #NGOOurAction #Breakfreefromplastic #TrashtagMontenegro #TOKotor #KulturniCentarNikolaDjurkovic #JUMorskoDobro #DanPlaneteZemlje #EarthDay #KotorBay #OcistiME

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