In Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), some go hunting for waste in the creeks, Saturday June 3. A mother brought her children. Within minutes, they find phones, condoms or other waste abandoned on the seawall, but also at sea.”We found an electric scooter,” says a local. Volunteer freedivers came to lend a hand. At the bottom of the water, plastic. We find some 8 million tons in the oceans each year.
79 cubic meters of waste collected in 2022
In 2022 on the Mediterranean coast, 79 cubic meters waste was collected, compared to double two years ago. The situation is improving. “This is one of the quietest years to pick up basically. There is a lot of small waste (…) but it is relatively clean enough”underlinee Francois Vireviallepresident of the Marseille apnea association. On land and at sea, 60 associations will take turns on Saturday June 3 to clean up the Big Blue, from Marseille to Martigues.
