The basketball season begins and with it the delivery of the Green Scholarships of Urbaser. The winners of this second edition in Malaga are CB Marbella, CD La Goleta and CD Marbella Basket who have received their checks today at the Costa del Sol Environmental Complex.
For the second consecutive year, the Andalusian Basketball Federation (FAB) and Urbaser, leading company in environmental management, grant the Green Scholarships, an initiative aimed at Andalusian basketball clubs that have shown his activism in defense of the environment.
The project basketSOStenible, in which these scholarships are framed, its objectives are to raise awareness and sensitize about the need to adopt sustainable habits with our planet; bring the SDGs related to the environment closer together; promote the reduction of plastics and adopt a culture of waste separation.
Green Scholarships include 2,000 euros for each of the eight FAB delegations, amount that has been divided into three prizes of 1,000, 600 and 400 euros for each of the three clubs that have been awarded in each province.
In this second edition they have participated in Andalusia 219 clubs, 48 from Malaga. The actions of the clubs have been very diverse, from the recycling and reuse of sports equipment, through the progressive elimination of single-use plastic, collection of caps, as well as information campaigns on what to put in each container.
The checks have been delivered by the Director of Treatment of Urbaser in Andalusia, Sebastián González, and the president of the Andalusian Basketball Federation, Antonio de Torres. From FAB and Urbaser they have highlighted the high participation and involvement of the clubs in this edition, despite the complex health situation of last season, and they trust that new goals will be surpassed in the third.