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Students collect rubbish from along the coast The Club Náutico de Jávea, in collaboration with the Fundación Ecomar and Fundación de Oceanográfico, invited children from the fifth and sixth grade at CEIP Port de Xàbia to a special clean-up day along the coast of Xàbia. Collecting rubbish in different point around the port area of the town, the educational activity helped the kids to learn about waste separation to deposit it into the different containers - yellow for packaging, green for glass, blue for paper and cardboard and grey for organic rubbish. Guided by staff from the yacht club and the two foundations, the schoolchildren and their teachers covered the area along the harbour wall to the red lighthouse, the landing zone alongside the fish market and the area of the Paseo Marina Española close to the mouth of the river Gorgos. They collected more than 150 kilograms of rubbish, p lacing it in separate bags according to the container into which it was to be thrown. For full story see: Javeamigos Promoting artificial reefs Thursday, November 23, the Municipal Sports Foundation of Valencia and Innogate to Europe held in collaboration with the Arrecifes Valencia Project and the European ArtReefs Project (co-funded by the European Union), the first meeting entitled: “Recreational artificial reefs: opportunities for sustainable tourism and coastal management.” Artificial reefs are coastal management tools that combine protection of the marine environment with ecological development and also generate