Hundreds of plastic waste are collected with each mobilization.

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Azur project

  • Anaëlle Marot embodies the Project Azur, carried by the association “Tout sur ma Mer”.

  • All summer, she traveled the Mediterranean Sea by bicycle and kayak to collect plastic waste along the coast.

  • Its journey ends on September 12 in Menton.

Cycling, kayaking, these are the means of transport used by Anaëlle Marot to travel the Mediterranean coast and collect the plastic waste that pollutes it.

An action called "Project Azur" and embodied throughout the summer by the young woman of 27 years.

Left by bike from Marseille on May 31, she arrived in Cerbère on July 5 and continued her journey by kayak from Hyères on July 19.

From Saint-Raphaël, via Cannes and Nice, she made a stopover on September 6 in Monaco.

On September 6, Anaëlle Marot made a stopover in Monaco for a day of plastic waste collection.

- Azur project

A path of 1,000 kilometers with a cleaning of 57 sites, for which it was supported by local associations and carried by its own, “Tout sur ma Mer”.

Anaëlle's travel map during the summer of 2020. - Projet Azur

This volunteer, sensitive to marine pollution, makes a "catastrophic" observation of the situation, two days before the end of her trip.

“During our actions, we collect 200 kg per day, and yet these are already clean and cleaned areas!” She testifies.

You should know that only 1% of plastic waste is on the coast, the rest is offshore or in the seabed.

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“We swallow the equivalent of a bank card every two weeks!

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“The Mediterranean Sea is the most polluted sea in the world with the highest plastic concentration on the planet.

There are small continents of plastics in the Mediterranean too, ”she whispers over the phone.

A sad record highlighted last June in an article in National Geographic.

According to a WWF report, in the Mediterranean "the concentration of plastic is four times higher than in the" plastic island ", more commonly known as the 7th continent.

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Pollution that damages our health, recalls Anaëlle Marot.

“58% of sardines and anchovies are contaminated with plastic and they are the most eaten fish in the world.

With the plastic particles in the air, we swallow the equivalent of a bank card every two weeks!

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A hope ?

“It's a dramatic observation, but what is incredible is that I have met few people who tell me that there is nothing to do.

Many people want to get involved, through associations for example and in everyday actions.

Like having a gourd with you, always, that you like!

Or get a reusable lunch box that doesn't take up too much space.

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On September 12, the Project Azur will end in Menton but the young woman's fight does not end there.

“After September 12, I want to publish a moral report and a quantitative and qualitative analysis with possible solutions and bring it to all those who need to hear it: the town halls, the actors that we have targeted and who are polluters.

So that all this developed energy does not fall, she announces.

And then in 2021, there is a project to see what is happening at the source of the problem, which is the earth.

We're going to take samples near the Loire.

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