Volunteers from different parts of Tenerife removed this past weekend more than 400 kilos of waste from the Las Teresitas hillside, in an extremely spectacular action due to the way in which it was carried out due to the steepness of the place.
Pedro Millan, manager of the Sustainable Santa Cruz Foundation, which coordinated the group, recognized the importance of this specific action: “You realize when you take many, of all kinds and in very different places. They are all important, not because of the number of kilos collected, but because they should be examples to the rest of society of the importance of protecting nature”.
Millanreferring to the cleanliness on the slope of Las Teresitas, indicated that they have “two parallel readings” that have a lot to do with the reasons why the place had the appearance before and the present: “The first, how wonderful to have such special people that they take risks to clean a vertical terrain and the second, how there may be other people who have dedicated themselves for decades to throwing cans and bottles while contemplating their impressive views”.
The Tenerife Mountaineering Federation, together with the Sustainable Santa Cruz Foundation, organized the complicated activity with the technical coordination of Antonio Villar and Javier Martin Carbajal.
“A very powerful team of young and veteran people came together, collecting and separating (the most difficult part) more than 400 kilos of waste, mainly cans and bottles… I dream of a day when it is not necessary to do this type of cleaning because everyone The world will be aware… Hopefully”. she indicated.
The photographs are the work of Ricardo Moreno, being the best proof of how important, and complicated, this action is.
