Christian Bouzols in France tells us about a community programme to combat litter.

In France, the equivalent of 200 million bin bags are still discarded in the environment every year.
Faced with this alarming reality, World Cleanup Day – France organised a major mobilisation bringing together citizens, businesses, associations, schools and local communities from during a week in September, as part of the world’s largest civic and environmental action.

While this initiative transcends borders, it is worth noting that in 2024, more than 140,000 French people donned gloves and collected rubbish from public roads alongside 23 million volunteers in 190 countries and territories. This was an unprecedented mobilisation… but it is still not enough to curb the proliferation of litter.

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