In two hours, nearly 228,735 cigarette butts were picked up throughout the city of Toulouse.

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Sad record for the Pink City.

On Thursday, members of the Champ Actions and Unis-Cité associations collected butts on the public highway in Toulouse.

In two hours, the 226 young people participating in this cleaning operation collected 228,735 cigarette butts, breaking the previous European record held by the city of Brussels with 120,000 cigarette butts.

Mapping of the dirtiest areas

“We collected it all over the city, in different quantities depending on the neighborhood,” explains Florence Ducroquetz, president of the Champ Actions association.

In the city center, where road teams often pass by, we found between 7,000 and 8,000 cigarette butts while in the outskirts, especially in large-area car parks, we reached nearly 16,000 cigarette butts ”.

The three Toulouse neighborhoods most affected by this pollution are Balma-Gramont with 16,500 cigarette butts, Barrière de Paris with 16,312 cigarette butts and Borderouge with its 15,000 butts.

The association will establish a cartography of the dirtiest areas in order to transmit it to the town hall of Toulouse.

In two hours of collection, the associations collected nearly 228,735 cigarette butts in Toulouse.

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Beyond this major cleaning operation, the associations raised awareness among passers-by to this pollution and distributed around sixty pocket ashtrays.

A cigarette butt contains 90 carcinogens and 2,500 toxic substances.

"In 27 minutes, a cigarette butt diffuses 50% of these substances in a puddle of water, which then end up in the Garonne, the main source of drinking water for Toulouse residents," warns the president of Champ Actions.

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