Carcassonne. Waste collection operation on the sides of departmental roads

The Aude department and its local partners organized for the fourth year in a row, this Monday, April 15, a major waste collection operation along departmental roads on around ten sites spread across the different Aude territories. The goal is to clean the roadsides of Aude by removing cans, polystyrene, furniture and even plastic of all kinds.

More than 200 kg waste collected

“Every year, our road agents clean the edges of 4,300 km of roads and 8,600 roadsides in Aude. During this mowing period, if we do not clean the roads, we have a scattering of pieces of plastic which are very harmful to the environment The Department is using this punch action with the intervention of each of our five territorial divisions which are present in the four corners of the department. We are also accompanied this year by around thirty children. adolescents coming from the social centers of the Roseraie group and La Conte who also collect waste and who are concerned with the environmental cause”, explains Tamara Rivel, vice-president of the Department of Aude responsible for roads and mobility.

Youth sensitive to the environmental cause

“We work throughout the year with our young people on environmental issues, particularly pollution. This operation is very good, it is a project that meets our objectives and the young people are delighted to do this type of activity They become aware of it by spending an hour on the side of the roads, collecting and then filling the trucks with waste. It makes them think, they wonder why there is so much of it, waste is a daily occurrence and it can stay there for a very long time. pollute the surrounding fauna and flora If no one does anything, we will soon be walking on our own waste instead of walking on grass, this is vital for the future of the planet. expresses Gérard de Moreviller, director of adolescent reception at the La Roseraie social center in Carcassonne.