By Bejay Browne.
A ceremony was held to inaugurate the installation of an artwork, the ‘recycler’ fish to promote recycling in Paphos.
The new environmental initiative of the municipality aims to raise public awareness concerning the recycling of plastics and the municipality’s active participation in environmentally friendly moves and to promote sensitivity to the marine ecosystem, the municipality said.
“The municipality and pharmaceutical company Medochemie are joining forces to combat marine pollution from plastics, which has been exacerbated by the pandemic of coronavirus, and has led to an increase in the production of plastic products, such as surgical masks, latex gloves and other protective equipment, while maintaining and upgrading the quality of our tourist product, but also the health of the citizens,” the municipality announced.
In the meantime, two art installations were placed at Geroskipou beach and aim to promote environmental awareness and sensitivity in the area, according to the mayor.
“The municipality continues the policy of promoting recycling in the area through the installation of two ecological art installations on the revamped municipal beach”, he said.
The installations are part of a wider municipal plan for similar actions that promote recycling and protect the environment.
The installations are a co-operation between the municipality, the centre for research-AKTI, artist Elena Daniel, and children and teachers of the Second Primary School.
The first artwork is a large metal fish which was designed by Elena Daniel and created by Antonis Menikou. The second is a beach umbrella which the primary school children have decorated with coloured plastic bottle tops.
