Surgical masks floating along coastlines. An image that Barbara Pompili wants to ward off. On Wednesday in Biarritz, the Minister for the Ecological Transition launched the “charter for beaches without plastic waste” and invited coastal towns to adhere to it, feeling sorry to have “yet to pass” messages on the jet. mask on the ground.
About ten cities, including Biarritz, have already joined and "twenty others want to get involved", according to Barbara Pompili, in favor of the charter which lists 15 concrete actions in terms of prevention, including awareness and cleaning.
The Minister relies on local relays
Presented in 2019 by Brune Poirson, then Secretary of State for Ecological Transition, the charter has been “experimented” since and intends to help achieve the objective set by the Biodiversity Plan of “zero plastic discharged into the sea by 2025”.
Barbara Pompili insisted on the role of the local, associations and communities, for these objectives. "We can make the most beautiful laws in the world, if it is not taken up locally we will not succeed," she said, calling on "all elected officials of the coast" to sign the charter, "a fairly easy project, an entry into ecology ”according to her.
"Avoid throwing your mask on the ground"
Also referring to the upsurge in plastic waste linked to the Covid-19 crisis, the Minister recalled that "everyone can be an eco-citizen by avoiding throwing their mask on the ground", while saying "sorry to have yet to get this kind of message across ”.
The Sepanso (Society for the Study and Development of Nature in the South-West), an influential environmental association in the region, on the occasion of the government visit, sounded the alarm on "the utra -pubbing of coastal beaches during wild nocturnal gatherings ”with beers, often broken bottles, cigarette ends, cardboard boxes, goblets, in the neighboring Landes department.
Denouncing a ministerial response "not up to the task", Sepanso believes in a press release that in order to avoid this "daily ecological disaster", "the time is not to launch a charter, but to put in place a plan. urgent action to enforce the laws and regulations in force ”.
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