The Biodiversity Foundation signs a collaboration agreement with Ecoembes to combat marine litter and promote green employment

The Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment and Ecoembes, have today signed a collaboration agreement with the aim of combating marine litter and promoting green employment in our country, which includes an endowment of €400,000. During the signing, in which the director of the Biodiversity Foundation participated. Sonia Castañeda, and the CEO of Ecoembes, Óscar Martín, the commitment of both institutions to the promotion of green employment has been reaffirmed.
 
Aware of the need to develop initiatives that contribute to the care of the marine ecosystem, both institutions will launch a specific call to support projects related to marine litter. They will include actions such as the preparation of studies on the impact of litter on the marine environment, as well as volunteer and clean-up actions on different beaches on the Spanish coast. The objective of the agreement is to contribute to alleviating the negative socio-economic effects of marine litter, as well as the threat it poses to both human health and marine fauna and flora.
 
On the other hand, Ecoembes and the Biodiversity Foundation will develop Social Innovation actions, through the implementation of projects aimed at improving employment and promoting entrepreneurship in the field of prevention and recycling.
 
On the other hand, and within the framework of the Entrepreneurship Network of the Biodiversity Foundation, actions will be developed to promote the creation of companies in this area of work and new lines of business. 
 
Sonia Castañeda stressed that “we know that the green economy is the present and the future and this agreement will allow us to support new entrepreneurs to launch their ideas”.
 
For his part, Óscar Martín, CEO of Ecoembes, said that “for us it is a source of satisfaction to be able to collaborate for the second consecutive year with the Biodiversity Foundation in the care of the environment. We all have the obligation to do our bit in terms of sustainability, but also contributing to the development of the socio-economic fabric of our country”.
 
ECO-RECINNOVA PROGRAM
This agreement gives continuity to the Eco-Recinnova Programme launched in 2015 by Ecoembes and the Biodiversity Foundation, and which aimed to develop activities to promote the creation and consolidation of companies or new lines of business in the field of eco-design and recycling. This program was developed within the framework of the Emprendeverde Network, which is co-financed by the European Social Fund, and of which more than 7,500 entrepreneurs are already part.