Municipality of Rethymno honored for its environmental commitment

The grant was presented to Mayor Giorgis Marinakis during the two-day forum “Do It Green – Recycling for a Sustainable Future,” held astatine the Cultural and Conference Center of Heraklion.

Beyond the grant ceremony, Mayor Marinakis — who besides serves arsenic president of the Regional Union of Municipalities of Crete (PED) — participated successful a roundtable treatment connected biology initiatives, alongside Menelaos Bokeas, Mayor of Malevizi, Giorgos Ntispyrakis, Deputy Mayor of Phaistos, and Kostas Kokkinakis, Deputy Mayor of Gortyna.

“No program, nary substance however well-designed oregon ambitious, tin win without the practice of institutions, the knowing of citizens, and the imaginativeness that indispensable go a shared work instilled successful our children,” emphasized Mayor Marinakis successful his speech.

He went connected to note:

“The Municipality of Rethymno leads — and has been recognized — successful galore European projects focused connected biology protection, recycling, and the circular economy. Just a fewer days ago, we organized an important lawsuit dedicated to the recycling of electrical and physics devices. Environmental extortion is simply a regular interest and an unwavering precedence for our municipality. As a modern society, we indispensable recognize that determination is nary specified happening arsenic ‘waste’ successful the accepted sense, but alternatively resources with biology and economical worth that we indispensable systematically and continuously utilize.”