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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 7 JULY 2019
EVERY June 5th is the World
Environment Day. On this
day, communities and in-
dividuals around the world
work to increase awareness of
the importance of conserving
the environment, the positive
global impact of environmen-
tal regulations and controls
and engage in activities that
serve to educate and improve
their environmental issues lo-
cally.
MITA, in collaboration with
The Gaia Foundation, em-
barked on the first green cor-
porate social responsibility
initiative outside the Agency's
parameters. Gaia is an envi-
ronmental non-governmental
voluntary organisation found-
ed in 1994. The foundation
manages two sites of ecologi-
cal importance, which are part
of the Natura 2000. These
sites are Ramla l-Hamra on
the Island of Gozo and Ghajn
Tuffieha in Malta. The organi-
sation also has a tree nursery
where they grow a number
MITA's clean-up event on World
To boost the Agency's Green notion, MITA embarked
on a corporate mission to encourage waste, reduction,
re-use, recycling, and resource recovery
Ritienne Borg Grech
