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VIDEO. In Marseille, this association allows you to pay thanks to the waste collected
Paying for a beer in exchange for waste is what the Sauvage currency created by the Marseille association Sauvage Méditerranée allows. Brut went to meet them to understand how it works.
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Paying for a beer in exchange for waste is what the Sauvage currency created by the Marseille association Sauvage Méditerranée allows. Brut went to meet them to understand how it works.
Collecting waste and exchanging it for money is what the Sauvage Méditerranée association is proposing through the Sauvage currency. The coins donated, a sort of “rewards” for those who collected the waste, are made from marine waste transformed into recycled plastic. “We are going to put 1000 pieces into circulation to start with” explains Emmanuel Laurin, founder of Sauvage Méditerranée.
The Marseille association has created various partnerships with local merchants where it is possible to pay in Sauvage currency. Among them is the Zoumai brewery, co-founded by Jérôme Talin: “A Wild coin will be able to grant access to any half of beer brewed here.” Beekeeper Léo Ballongue is offering a jar of honey in exchange for a Sauvage coin. With this project, the association hopes to “generate positive externalities on the environment” And “rewilding“our relationship with nature.
