During the world oceans Day, Monday, June 8, Aurora Negro Foucaud has rolled up his sleeves to clean up the beach Marquet, Cap d’ail, on the French Riviera. Bad surprise for the executive secretary of the association of Friends of the oceanographic museum of Monaco : the traditional cigarette butts, bits of scrap, capsules, and bottles that have washed up on the sand, there are now gloves, masks, and bottles of hydroalcoholic gel. “And yet, I was picking up rubbish on a beach is supposed to be kept…” laments she. In the city, of masks, of polypropylene, littering the gutters, and…

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