As part of World CleanUp Day 2022, the cleaning operation organized by the Clean St Martin association finally took place this Sunday, September 25 in the morning with as much good humor and solidarity as ever.
Audrey Barbès, member of the Clean St Martin association which will also celebrate its 4th anniversary this month, explains to us that she chose this place on the coast of Cul-de-Sac facing the island of Pinel for promote the collection of waste that comes from the sea, and not waste left by people who voluntarily dirty. Access was not easy but that did not slow down the 24 participants, including 3 children, and a few dogs who came to motivate the troops. A walking and hiking trail is partly on the route established for the association for this operation, the public is also strongly invited to participate at their level for a specific territory, it is enough to bring a bag and pick up the trash you find on your walk. This practice from Sweden called "plogging" (contraction of the word jogging and the verb plocka upp which means to pick up in Swedish) therefore combines sport and the environment. This Sunday morning at Cul-de-Sac, it was more of a walk-plogging but the effort was not less. The rough seas of the last few days having swallowed up some of the waste observed by a member of Clean St Martin during a reconnaissance mission upstream of the operation, the collection was not as productive as hoped, but the waste collected, mainly plastic coming from the sea, are not negligible. Indeed, they represent a hundred kilos that the volunteers carried throughout the action which lasted two hours and which will be brought to the recycling center. The participants enjoyed a nice walk in the National Nature Reserve of Saint-Martin on the way. 100kg less waste on the Cul-de-Sac coast thanks to the Clean St Martin association, which had also collected a ton of waste (a whole dumpster) during its previous cleaning operation. The Clean St Martin association has been organizing this initiative once a month since 2018. After Irma passed through in 2017, cleaning missions took place once a week. If the frequency has dropped, the missions remain important and the work carried out by the Clean St Martin association, with all the environmental awareness that characterizes it, must be welcomed and congratulated. Well done well done. _VX
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