Mussels cultivated in Crimea (illustrative image). - Sergei Malgavko / TASS / Sipa USA / SIPA

  • A photo of a plastic clip mold has been posted thousands of times on Facebook.
  • The object was offered to customers of restaurants in Gironde.

Did a restaurant in Arcachon offer customers a plastic clip to taste mussels? A photograph of the object, published by the Facebook page "Mr Mondialisation", was relayed more than 26,000 times in three days on the social network.

The administrators of this page, followed by nearly 1.5 million subscribers, explain that “in Arcachon (and not that), restaurants give a disposable plastic mold-clamp - in its plastic film - to eat its mussels … Because taking an empty mold and using it directly is has been. The post drew indignant reactions.

Solicited by 20 Minutes , the group that manages the restaurant and three other identical brands in Gironde did not respond. However, several sources confirm that the object, which features the logo of the four establishments, is offered to customers.

"The height"

Lucie F. sent the photo of the claw mussel to the Mr Mondialisation page. "I can't understand how there is research and development on something like this," she explains to 20 Minutes. The student, who is trying to limit her uses of plastic, refused the object when it was offered to her.

Luca B., customer of a restaurant in Cap-Ferret, in the Arcachon basin, was also offered the accessory: "We tried to eat with it, but our fingers are not cleaner" , he recalls. “It's really the height to have plastic to eat a mussel. "

The object is offered to restaurant customers. - Luca B.

The animators of the Mr Mondialisation page explain to 20 Minutes that their publication “is part of our #balancetonproduit operation which has been running for several months. Every day we publish a plastic aberration. "

In their post on Facebook, they added that “by 2050, it is estimated that more plastic than fish (by weight) will be found in the oceans. An estimate from a report published in 2016 by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the World Economic Forum. However, this calculation should be taken with hindsight, the BBC reminded at the time of publication of the report.

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