[August 21, in portu Russu. document and photos: vs]
There is a reef in beautiful Badisco, in the 'fold' of Portu Russu. The stone takes on in some places, is rust, as if he had absorbed the essence of the earth, allowing small terraces overlooking falls to rest. A narrow, quiet that calms every current and the wind. Days ago, a great shoal of fish and filled the bottom looked like a meadow to graze. You can imagine the sparkling underwater, the sudden leaps and maneuvers that were opened were opened as the fireworks in our skies in the nights of the Saints. Places as the coast of Salento is full, each with its own with its unique inner beauty. Everyone, if you go to visit these days of late summer, 'wounded' neglect. The rock of Portu Russu find it all decorated with cigarette butts. The fury of the defect is known, makes it insensitive and many smokers are in a bathing suit: what's better than a "bbella cigarette" before and after a swim? Much more for sure! But the vice is vice, not govern. And not everything that governs it follows that, as it was en plein air, taste it leaves a trace and go, each cigarette smoked a cigarette butt is abandoned, to be set, with warm colors in the slots, the recesses, in the cracks of the rock. That obsession!
An advertisement in recent days has been conveyed in the pages of major newspapers, told the pollution of a beach. There was sand and then everything normally, with absolute 'innocence' chooses to leave, supplied information for the biodegradability of a time: a tissue 'disappeared' in four weeks. Just right? Comforted?! Read on ... But before giving the numbers, I want to inform you that the fold of rock of Portu Russu, was an act of love back to its integrity and beauty (see photo). An act of love that we hope will become contagious and spread, becoming common behavior. Mode of travel and stay in places. A newspaper it takes six weeks while a glossy magazine from 80 to 10 months. A fool match six months, a lighter 100 years. A cigarette butt one year or more, a cigarette without filter (grazieaddio!) 3 months. A chewing gum 5 years. An aluminum can 10 years. A plastic bag 500 years and more, wool cloth and put us between 8 and 10 months and horror of the synthetic fabric 500 years and more. A plastic bottle 'resists' almost 100 years. Towels and diapers 200 years. Phone cards 1000 years while the time of the glass bottles is not known. I read that glass is the most important material to recycle because it takes a ton to produce 1.1 tons of sand, soda ash, limestone and large quantities energy and water. Recycle saves about 95% of the resources used as raw materials. It still sticks cotton fiock we see on the beaches are thrown into the water, floating in our seas and in our rivers for years and they suffocate the fish. The plastic bags that do not go to landfill and that end up in our waterways bring serious consequences to the animals that inhabit them who die accidentally suffocated. And so much more if you look around the right information on what is happening in this wretched time!
"No more tourists," I wrote yesterday, the headline a summer course dedicated Salento. Yeah, 'never again' suicidal thoughts for a land that wants to turn to the travel industry. Appreciate that both goal and aims to become a tour operator. They waste words, propositions and projects. It says 'Quality Tourism' (which makes "chic and very nice") but not 'sustainable tourism' or 'Responsible Tourism'. We invite people to consume, consume, consume but not to respect the object and the place of their consumption. So you can think of to turn this boarding broken tee and a port conscious and aware. There is a difference between tourist and traveler? One would think. In this difference we could find the key to a policy of accepting no more subject to market forces but stronger its virtues and its peculiarities.
MM
