The following figures have been calculated based on 358 report forms filled in before December 10th, 2016, out of a total of 1127 collected,
with a weighting criteria based on the type of collection.
Total number of items collected in 194 clean-ups: 281 460 quantified items.
We decided to organize an event with the Paris branch of the Zero Waste France association. We focused on the cigarette butt in the Bastille district (Paris). The result defies all argument: 165 piles, i.e. 16500 cigarette butts. Passers-by and locals were struck by our Initiatives, giving us the opportunity to create a special awareness-raising time with them.
The impact that waste had on the environment - of whatever nature - was our only concern. This concern is ongoing and our participation in Ocean Initiatives is simply a matter of becoming aware that many of the items of litter that we pick up - even in Switzerland - may potentially end up in the seas. It also seemed important to us to provide information to Ocean Initiatives in support of your work in influencing the authorities and public opinion.
Without a doubt, the item of litter most frequently found during our collection is the plastic stick (cotton swab) used to clean the ears. The initiative received a warm welcome from passers-by who started to pick up the litter spontaneously and to put it aside for us.
Marine litter have been causing havoc to marine environment, most times we have seen aquatic animals stuck in the litter, turtles strangled with the ghost nets etc. This is what motivated me and other colleagues to organize a beach clean-up in Kenya to at least prevent the impacts of these wastes to the aquatic environment.
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