This is reminiscent of what happened in Marseilles last October, when tons of waste washed up on the beaches of the Marseille city.

After the flood of the Garonne, whose level rose Tuesday morning to more than 4.20 m at Pont-Neuf, in Toulouse at the end of last week, tens of kilos of waste were found on the banks of the river.

Especially since the bad weather intervened in the middle of a garbage collectors' strike, while heaps of garbage cans were strewn on the sidewalks of the Pink City.

Volunteers from the association Champ d'actions, which collects waste every Sunday, found no less than 2,500 kg of various objects, straight out of our trash cans.

In addition to the remains of a pulverized kayak, the disguise of a giant rabbit or the sleeping bags and tents of makeshift camps, the turbulent waters also carried hundreds of kilos of plastic to the side of the Amidonniers or the Prairie Filters.

Nets at the level of the evacuation vents

“We saw lots of dead fish, on the sides, blocked by uncollected city trash cans.

The piles of waste reached four meters in height, it is a problem because we are entering a nesting period, ”explains Florence Ducroquetz, the president of the association.

She had the pleasure of seeing people from Toulouse who came to lend a hand to the volunteers.

She knows that they will still have to intervene many times before they can reach certain areas where bags and other waste have gotten stuck.

“But what would be needed to avoid this is to simply install nets at the level of the evacuation vents.

We're going to the moon and we don't know how to put four nets in a city where there are so many engineers,” laments this volunteer.

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