Buenos Aires, 3 Dec (EFE).-A Buenos Aires children’s hospital managed to restore today a new Guinness record, so far no one had tried to collect in one day several tens of tons of caps of plastic bottles, which then sold for recycling with the aim of achieving funding for the Centre doctor.
“This program is something we never saw anywhere in the world, it is a brand new record,” admitted a representative of the “Guinness World Records”, which is located in Buenos Aires to monitor activity.
Responsible for the Guinness established that to enter the famous book the Garrahan Hospital Foundation, one of the medical centres for children most important Argentina, must pick at least 500 kilograms of plastic bottles of water and soda lids in eight hours.
“Record beat it in the first half hour,” he told Efe the spokesman for the Foundation, Nabila Kassab, who claimed that 90 minutes of the time limit already wore heavy over 55 tons and still remaining 20 trucks full of covers without accounting for.
To achieve the feat the Garrahan Foundation undertook a campaign involving various celebrities, including actor Facundo Arana, former footballer Martin Palermo and the artist Marta Minujin, appearing in advertising images dressed with a lid red covering his nose as if it were that of a clown.
The Foundation began twelve years ago a project of paper recycling through donations from schools, companies and institutions of the country, they were able to raise 56,000 tonnes.
To the success of the initiative and at the suggestion of some volunteers created another program to collect also the lids of bottles, also in order to sell them for recycling and raise funds to improve the facilities of the hospital and other medical centers in the country who collaborate with them.
This new project has exceeded all expectations, as they have managed to collect so far 840 million tapas (2,000 tons of plastic).
Thanks to this initiative has been raised more than 2.5 million pesos (approximately 581.400 USD), funds that could conclude works in the hospital and buy latest technology equipment, in addition to helping other medical centers in the country who collaborate with the campaign of gathering.
“Every tapita in addition to cure a child, cure the planet,” said today the Venezuelan actress Catherine Fulop, settled in Argentina for years to come to the event to collaborate.
The money collected from the sale of the lids collected today will be used to equip a mobile unit of the Buenos Aires hospital. EFE
