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The packaging waste management organization Žaliasis taškas has installed special boxes with bags to collect the rubbish that is on the way in the visitor centers of 35 parks. These bags are offered to visitors free of charge.
Depending on the size of the protected area, between 500 and 800 bags are placed in the visitor centers. Their goal is to replenish stocks when they expire.
According to the State Protected Areas Service, most of the bags are taken in suburban parks, where garbage is more abundant. This is the Kaunas Lagoon Regional Park, the Neris Regional Park, located between Vilnius and Kernavė.
On the other hand, guide Saulius Pupininkas, who works at the Neris Regional Park Visitor Center, told BNS that so far he has not noticed much interest in this campaign.
“We have given away a dozen bags in a couple of weeks,” he said.
Diana Rakauskaitė, a public relations representative for the State Service of Protected Areas, stated that after the quarantine, the number of protective masks in the country’s forests and parks increased, and the number of food packages left by the lakes.
“There are fewer plastic bottles, but in meeting places and resorts, people leave most of that rubbish. Despite the fact that there is an attitude in Europe ‘What you brought, take it off’, we often have another : “What I bring, I leave,” said D. Rakauskaitė.
Visitors who have picked up Green Dot bags and picked up trash are encouraged not to leave them in park dumpsters, but to take them home and throw them away.
“We see another problem in the parks, where there are special garbage containers: people dispose of them correctly (garbage – BNS) there, but the wild animals and the wind take them away,” said Asta Burbaitė, Green Dot public relations representative. .
If large contaminated areas are detected, it is proposed to mark them on the management map of the organization “Let’s do it” or report them to the local waste manager, municipality or elder.
Natalia Paskevičiūtė, a Vilnius volunteer, said that she decided to participate in this environmental cleanup campaign without being hated by the trash that is constantly found in nature, and its collection has become a good habit.
“According to the investigation, the places where there is already garbage are receiving even more garbage, so I kept noticing how the amount of garbage was increasing and one day I decided to put everything in order,” the volunteer told BNS.
The volunteer, who mainly visits the forests near Naujoji Vilnia, said the personal record is of 30 garbage bags collected from one location.
“When I didn’t have the opportunity to fix it myself, I wrote to the municipality. She reacts very quickly and organizes everything possible,” he said.
Campaign organizers said they were looking for more durable bags for this purpose so that they could be recycled a second time.
“We realized that a simple bag made of HDPE plastic without additives would be best, it can be easily recycled. We were afraid of UV breakout bags, which if they appeared in nature, would break down into small particles and it would be even more difficult to organize, “A. Burbaitė told BNS.
Initially, only the campaign, connecting regional and national parks, spanned three weeks.
“Now our bags, boxes and posters are being requested by resorts and children’s camps,” said a Green Dot representative.
The “Mission: Clean Summer” campaign will run from June 17 and last until the end of summer.
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