WE TALK ABOUT MY ACTIONS
2022
"We're creating a human barrier between trash and nature. Everyone throws litter. If we could get one piece of rubbish times 66 million [the UK population], it would make a huge difference"
Edmund Platt, UK
"Every single day, an estimated two million pieces of litter are dropped across the UK - costing a staggering £1billion a year to clear up. But Ed Platt, 44, and Frédéric Munsch, 42, have another solution - encouraging Britons to pick up at least one piece of litter a day. To that end, the Anglo- French pair are hiking 500 miles across the country clearing rubbish."
"Every time you pick up one piece of rubbish, it is as if you give a hug and you get a little stroke of happiness to the planet."
Edmund Platt & Frédéric Munch, UK
"Face masks have become the must-wear accessory of 2020. But they then get discarded and end up littering the landscape. Now a Franco-British duo is walking over 750 kilometres from Marseille to Paris, removing thousands of masks from roads and fields..
“We’re creating a human barrier between trash and nature,”
Edmund Platt, UK
"Platt, 44, from Leeds, and his friend Frédéric Munsch, 42, are walking from Dover to Dundee, picking up litter and encouraging others to do the same. Or at least, to throw “a little less”.
“Trash picking has gone viral. I travel and I come from the Jura where I stayed for three months. Saturday morning, I set up my stand on the Beaune market, for an awareness campaign. I received a very warm welcome. I also went to the vineyards to pick up the cans and cigarette butts left by the pickers in the rows. I also work in schools. The next steps will be Sens and Paris»
Edmund Platt, Beaune
"In 2015, he created the collection association Un déchet par jour, which aims to make everyone aware of picking up one piece of waste per day. During the three days he spent in Beaune, he went to the Public Welfare agency on Monday.
15.09.2022 - THE PUBLIC GOOD - ARTICLE LINK
“It seems fairly obvious that these butts are left behind by parents waiting for their children in front of the school”
Edmund Platt, Redheads
"Monday, September 5, the 74 children of the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges school in Les Rousses carried out a cleaning operation which resulted in the collection of 400 cigarette butts near the school. That is 5.4 cigarette butts per student ."
10.09.2022 - VOICE OF THE JURA - ARTICLE LINK
"During my trip from Marseille to raise awareness among the general public about the impact of this waste, particularly plastic, on the seas and oceans, I had passed through Pontarlier and Lake Saint-Point. Since then, I knew that I had to I come to discover the upper Jura."
4.09.2022 - LE PROGRES - ARTICLE LINK
"Determined to denounce loud and clear the problem around waste and the disastrous impact on the planet, just like that of the plastic which suffocates the oceans, Edmund Platt comes to meet the high Jurassians at the Fraternelle this Thursday, September 1 at 6 p.m. , at the café of the People's House."
1.09.2022 - LE PROGRES - ARTICLE LINK
"Despite the end of the garbage collectors' strike, Marseille is still full of garbage cans. The association "Un déchet par jour" and its famous activist Edmund Platt was this Friday afternoon on the Canebière. Its goal: to collect the waste before they don't end up in the Old Port.
4.02.2022 - LA PROVENCE - ARTICLE LINK