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Mountain Riders
A program to reduce waste at the root
SensibilizationCircular economyAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes
With 750 €,
Mountain Riders finances:
1 new area(s) covered
6,560 €15,000 €
237 Captains
Challenge
Since 2001, Mountain Riders has been organizing and coordinating national litter-picking campaigns in the mountains. After 20 years of direct action in the field with several thousand volunteers and tons of waste collected in the mountains, the facts are clear: there is still just as much litter in the mountains (7.5 tons collected in 2021!). Today, it's high time to turn the corner and really reduce the presence of litter in the mountains.
Solution
To this end, since 2021 Mountain Riders has been piloting the "Montagne Zéro Déchet" project, a program to reduce waste at source. Through the deployment of educational tools, the dissemination of awareness campaigns and the organization of waste collection and characterization operations (nature, origin), young and old are encouraged to take action to imagine a wild zero waste mountain by 2030. It's still possible to see a zero-waste mountain by 2030!
Recent result
In 2021, the association collected 7.5 tons of waste through 52 collection operations mobilizing 2,800 people in the field.
The money will be used for
Funding will be used to supply characterization kits (tarpaulins, collection bags, scales, gloves, characterization sheets) and to train local players in the proper use of these tools, thus enabling them to organize awareness-raising operations and workshops independently.
Goal
For the year 2023, produce and deploy 10 characterization kits in the territories and each time train all players (citizens, tourist offices, town halls, ...) in their use.
P.A.E Côte-Rousse - 180 rue du Genevois, 73000 Chambéry, FR
Together for our mountains!
Mountain Riders is an educational association for ecological transition founded in 2001.
It is by encouraging children and young people to become drivers of change, by inviting practitioners to commit to a responsible approach, by accompanying tourism players, by involving citizens and elected representatives that it acts to preserve a mountain as essential as it is fragile.
In its actions, the association's team strives every day to embody the change it wishes to see in the world.
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Our pick-ups in 2023...
More and more of you are taking part in our mountain litter pick-up days, and we'd like to thank you!
The 2023 season in a few figures is:
72 pick-ups
55 level 2 characterizations
3,681 volunteers during pick-ups
14,594 tons of waste collected
But it's also: new territories in the project, increasingly automatic characterization carried out by local players, more efficient pick-ups and a growing "scientific" database.
See you soon for new collections.
Zero waste in the mountains by 2030?
Achieve zero wild waste in the mountains by 2030? It was around this objective that we brought together 100 mountain stakeholders in Grenoble on Thursday, March 16. That same day, the launch of the national campaign to collect litter in the mountains sounded off and the National Charter "Mountains Zero Wild Waste in 2030" was signed. A beautiful day, a hundred or so participants, round tables, exchanges...
It was around this same concrete, measurable and ambitious objective that all the stakeholders united:
- Mountain economic players: Atout France, Syndicat National des Moniteurs de Ski Français, Domaines Skiables de France, France Montagnes, Nordic France, Syndicat National des Accompagnateurs en Montagne, Union Nationale des Accompagnateurs en Montagne, Agence Savoie Mont Blanc, Agence des Pyrénées, Union Sports et Cycles, Cluster Montagne ;
- Mountain economic players: Atout France, Syndicat National des Moniteurs de Ski Français, Domaines Skiables de France, France Montagnes, Nordic France, Syndicat National des Accompagnateurs en Montagne, Union Nationale des Accompagnateurs en Montagne, Agence Savoie Mont Blanc, Agence des Pyrénées, Union Sports et Cycles, Cluster Montagne ;
- Régions Auvergne Rhône Alpes & Région Sud ;
- Institutional players : Association Nationale des Maires de Stations de Montagne ;
- Many Flocon Vert territories also represented: Font Romeu, Val D'Isère, Tignes, Chamrousse, Valloire, Les Arcs, Megève, Combloux, Morzine-Avoriaz...
- Institutional players : Association Nationale des Maires de Stations de Montagne ;
- Many Flocon Vert territories also represented: Font Romeu, Val D'Isère, Tignes, Chamrousse, Valloire, Les Arcs, Megève, Combloux, Morzine-Avoriaz...
Bolstered by this commitment, public and private players intend to make the mountains the only territory free of all wild pollution (cigarette butts, unique catering packaging, waste from commerce, building sites animations events...).
With a view to eliminating litter by 2030, stakeholders are working with Mountain Riders to determine action plans and various deadlines. The year 2023 will be "year 0" for measuring litter pollution, with the aim of achieving zero litter by 2030, with various stages: -10% in 2024, -40% in 2026 and -70% in 2028.
On the same day, Olivia Grégoire, Minister Delegate in charge of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Trade, Craft Industry and Tourism, took part in a videoconference to support the approach of this National Charter "Montagne zéro Déchet Sauvage en 2030". In particular, she emphasized "the indispensable, simple but ambitious" objective of the charter.
Fabrice Panneckouke closed the morning by affirming this necessarycollective ambition, in which the AURA region is fully involved.
The SUD region is also part of it, and we intend to mobilize all the Regions and Massif Commissariats, as well as the Ministry of Transition!"
The collective challenge we face here enables us to learn how to do things together in a very concrete way and thus prepare to take on other ambitions for the ecological transition of our mountain territories.