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Environmental Awareness Week includes talks, the Eco ULS fair and the inauguration of a clean point
The organization seeks to promote cultural change in issues as important as recycling and sustainability.
A week full of activities aimed at environmental awareness has been organized by the University of La Serena, through the Association of ULS Officials and the Environmental Civil Engineering Student Center, in order to generate spaces for conversation around sustainability. , recycling and clean points.
Environmental Awareness Week will take place between September 9 and 12 and has several activities planned, among which are sustainability talks, to be held on Monday 9, Thursday 12, from 09:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ., in the Multipurpose room of the CETECFI; the “Eco ULS” Environmental Fair, scheduled for Tuesday the 10th, from 11:00 a.m. to 17:00 p.m., in front of the Irma Salas Silva Central Library; and the inauguration of a Clean Point during the same day, at 15:30 p.m., and which will be located next to this last university campus.
These activities were carried out after students from the CEC Environmental proposed “doing something with the garbage” generated by the ULS and thus promoting cultural change with respect to recycling and environmental awareness. In parallel, AFULS officials had similar ideas, so they joined forces and this week of activities open to the community took place.
AFULS will be in charge of financing the initiative through funds granted by the institution for these purposes, and which were assigned to be used during 2019. The students will manage activities, which will be supported by officials.
The training of assistants from the Services Directorate of the Isabel Bongard and Ignacio Domeyko campuses was also considered.
Written by Patricia Castro, DirCom