World CleanUp Day: the big day of participatory cleaning: Mairie d’Avignon
Cleanliness is everyone’s business! This is why this Saturday, September 17, residents, associations and residents are invited to mobilize for a major cleaning operation in several places in our City.
World CleanUp Day is a movement of citizens without borders that unites the public, businesses, schools, communities and associations around the world around a positive and festive action by picking up waste that pollutes our environment on a daily basis, which whether it is urban or not. As a reminder, a large part of the cigarette butts thrown into the street have a good chance of ending up… in the ocean.
For the 2021 edition, 158,000 people mobilized and 615 tonnes of waste were collected throughout France, including 8.7 million cigarette butts.
Act concretely and together
From now on, block the date of September 17 in your calendar and mobilize your friends, your family, your colleagues to participate in World CleanUp Day.
This year, the objective is great: 5% of the French population must mobilize, that is to say more than 3 million people. Participating is simple : join a group near you or create a group.
The ambition, beyond this day, is to highlight all the initiatives planning throughout the year across France by associations, organizations that provide solutions for better production, better consumption, better/ throw away less. All these positive initiatives must be valued and become part of our daily lives.
Environmental pollution in the world: an alarming observation
Packaging of all kinds thrown into nature, furniture or simple cigarette butts on the sidewalks, litter has become part of our daily lives, regardless of where we are.
Beyond incivility, it is a real environmental scourge which has a negative impact on biodiversity. This waste is found everywhere, even reaching distant and less visible areas such as the bottom of the oceans.
For example, 80% of waste that ended up in the sea turned out to be land and a plastic bottle takes hundreds of years to degrade.
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