Collection today was typical for these beaches. On Geneva site 1 there was very little and on Geneva site 2 there was an average amount of litter, but nonetheless much less than I collected the first time, two weeks ago. The litter on both sights seems likely to have been generated away from the beach […]
Happy belated May day!
Oftentimes, beach goers comment on what I am doing and most people are happy to listen to a little spiel of what I am doing, thank me, and move on. Often though, someone positions them self on our side against the nameless litterers. While I do not entirely disagree with disparaging the people who throw […]
Perma Paris
While walking along the Arve river, I noticed, as usual, that different types of trash had accumulated on the edge of the water following some spring storms. The most obvious pollutant however, was very specific: several out-of-date professional hair care products from Eugene Perma, a hair-care and cosmetics company based in Paris. The bottles, however, […]
Second Geneva location officially established!
Today I did a clean-up on a second location in Geneva. It is located in the “living museum” of the botanical gardens and it is the last point where there is public lake access. Beyond this, everything becomes private. In the summer there are fewer people at this beach than at many of the other […]
Construction
Accumulation has been fairly low for the last two pickups and it is largely material that has been heavily weathered.I am worried that construction in the water may be creating a physical barrier to the accumulation of litter. Worse, it has blocked off the beach nearby where I was planning on establishing a second site. […]
The beach is clean, but its not enough
10.04.2016 The difficult to access beach in front of Villa Barton had very little trash today. There was a freshly deposited beer can and a few cigarette butts, but the vast majority of the trash was composed of weathered-down debris. All told, there was not much of that either. In the days before the cleanup there were […]
Scouting the Arve river bank
Today I scouted out possible collection points on the Arve river bank. The river was moving very fast and was a higher level than normal. There was also a large amount of trash distributed unevenly along the shoreline due, it seems, to a recent storm. I found a large quantity of small semi-clear plastic beads […]
Geneva Clean Beach Project II begins
Geneva Clean Beach Project is back! Building on the work done by Montreux Clean Beach Project I (MCBPI) and MCBPII, I will be providing data from two points on lake Geneva. In conjunction with MCBPI & MCBPII these collection points will greatly increase our knowledge of the accumulation of Anthropogenic Litter on Lake Geneva Trash […]
Nice and clean !
The Stats Date/Time : 23.07.2015/18h30 Estimated Kilos : .5 Estimated Liters : 2 A big storm came through last night so I wanted to collect trash today to see what would be on the beach. I imagine the lake cleans off the beach and drags the garbage out to the middle and onto the bottom […]
Adieu Genève – Bonjour La Seine & Hello Potomac
The era of Genève is almost over : Annelise is studying one semester in Washington D.C. and Thor is starting a master in Paris. Plagespropres is continuing – and so is this blog. This blog will be updated twice a week – once from Annelise on the Potomac and once from Thor on the Seine. […]
The Geneva Clean Beach Project / PlagesPropres Genéve 