The City of Cannes is implementing for the first time within the framework of its Agenda 21 a system of selective sorting on its beaches, along with numerous awareness operations, which should help reduce the amount of non-recovered waste in favor of recycling.
- Combining tourism and environmental protection is the approach of the City of Cannes, which has just implemented a selective collection system on its 8 km of beaches.
While sorting is at the top of the eco-citizen actions that everyone carries out daily to protect the environment, it is often forgotten once on vacation. However, there are no vacations for sorting!
With a population almost tripled during the summer season, this Riviera destination does not escape one of the direct consequences of tourism, namely the increase in waste production (+22% in household waste tonnage in 2010). Knowing that a vacationer produces an average of 1 kg of waste per day, the City of Cannes is committed to maintaining the sorting habit of holidaymakers at their vacation spot.
During the summer, besides the campsites, holiday residences, ports, and other places of growing attendance where the City of Cannes and SIVADES are already active, Cannes beaches will this year be a new place for awareness campaigns.
By incorporating the implementation of a selective collection system into its Agenda 21, the City is enhancing its coastal protection policy while meeting a demand expressed by tourists for several years.
- Consequently, seventy sorting bins on the beaches and forty-four on the kiosks have appeared alongside household waste bins, tasked with capturing this additional recyclable resource.
In total, nearly fifty beaches, including all 15 Blue Flag sites, now benefit from a collection system, signs reminding sorting instructions, and daily collection of recyclable packaging.
- Major awareness operations targeting tourists from August to September are being launched.
Therefore, the City of Cannes and the Méditerranée 2000 Association will dedicate several stands to the topic of waste recycling on the occasion of their participation in the Inf’Eau Mer summer campaign.
Armed with multilingual brochures and pocket ashtrays, the SIVADES Sorting Ambassadors will set up their stand in the bay of Cannes.
Finally, to gradually measure the impact of this new operation, the Sorting Ambassadors will regularly conduct composition checks on the collected waste stream.
