Wings Of The Ocean / Antenne Lyon

Wings of the Ocean is a French pollution cleanup association founded in 2018 whose activities focus primarily on maritime coasts and secondarily on the banks of waterways and basins. Through the development of various missions—the Kraken, Scylla, Étang de Berre, the South Mission, Étang de Thau, Bassin d'Arcachon, Rhône Valley, Gironde Estuary—and local branches, it became in 2021 the French association conducting the most cleanup operations with 250 cleanups in that year. In 2023 it recorded 415 cleanups (45 tons of waste). It also works on ocean protection and plastic-related issues through awareness campaigns. In 2023, there were 495 of these, and in 2024 it conducted 329. We invite you to follow what we do on our networks (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube). During each cleanup, waste is carefully sorted into well-defined categories, allowing us to collect concrete data on different locations. This data is recorded and enables us to study what constitutes pollution, identify those responsible, and propose solutions. We focus on ocean protection and the broader pollution problem, not just plastic. In this sense, awareness campaigns are also conducted in the field…