a waste collection operation in Marseille

Gloves and bag in hand, a retiree did not hesitate to brave the mistrals, Saturday April 15, to come and clean the beach of the Catalans, in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône). Like her, a hundred people are mobilized. Jeanne, 9 years old, and her mother-in-law, found tiles near the sea. On the rocks, you sometimes have to contort yourself to not forget anything.

plastic pollution

Bottles of beer, cans or packs of cigarettes are regularly left behind. As for plastic, it submerges the oceans. New estimates point to 2 million tonnes, and counting. “We are talking about the production of plastic which will increase further in the years to come, but the subject is to work on new materials, new ways of consuming, (…) ways of reducing packaging, too”comments Thomas de Williencourt, director of the Pure Ocean association.