Take two long-time friends and add a crazy bet to them.
You will get “Corsica or die”.
This is the name of the challenge of “Fred” Munsch and “Ed” Platt.
These friends from Marseille landed in Corsica on March 1 to tour the island on foot.
450 kilometers between Bastia and Bonifacio to pick up… cigarette butts.
“We wanted to do something out of the ordinary.
It was the Corsican subscribers in our community who put the idea in our heads, explains Ed, nicknamed “the English Snail” on social networks.
His partner, Fred, who goes by the name “Marseille wild boar”, insists on the playful dimension of the odyssey.
“We don’t have the green side of the lesson-giver.
Our goal is rather to set an example.
You shouldn't go to people to lecture them.
They come to us directly and we exchange, we joke, we explain…” For six weeks, they will tour the island.
With their pilgrim staff and plastic containers filled with cigarette butts.
A single cigarette butt pollutes 500 liters of water
“People talk to us about
Beijing Express
but our adventure is more of a mix of
Las Vegas Parano
and
I'll sleep at your place
.
» Currently in Cap Corse, they tried to install their sleeping bags on the terrace of a bar.
“A young person came to see us to tell us that in Corsica, they didn't let anyone sleep outside.
So he accompanied us to his house to leave us his bed…”, continues Fred.
Human encounters are undoubtedly what drives the adventurous duo.
“The rectorate contacted us to intervene in educational establishments.
This is also our mission, to address young people, to raise awareness, to explain to them that a single cigarette butt pollutes 500 liters of water.
The Isle of Beauty must remain beautiful.
» Arrival planned in Bonifacio, around April 15.