
0 MEGOT
This is the story of 4 swimmers who will swim down the river Seine (380 km) to engage the French to adopt a simple change : throw their cigarette butts in the trash.

0 Butts in the ocean
1 cigarette butt pollutes over 500 litres of water and takes over 10 years to fully decompose

A 380 km swim
A collaborative and sporting adventure to change the current mentalities

LIKE A BUTT IN THE WATER
Last June 2021, the four swimmers took turns day and night, for a week, to cover the 380 km that separate Paris and Deauville. The objective of the association 0 Mégot is to raise awareness among French people to adopt a simple gesture : throw their cigarette butt in the trash.
4 SWIMMERS
After having swum across the Strait of Gibraltar, Lake Geneva, La Gironde and lake Baringo in Kenya, they want to glide on the surface of a river closer to home: the Seine

Matthieu
Witvoet
"C'est à la surface, qu'on va chercher ses profondeurs"

Chloé
Leger
"Knowing how to swim is useful when you're underwater"

Lucas
Witvoet
"The diplomacy of the bathing cap, our strategy for tomorrow"

Louise
Pasquet
"There where there is a will, there is a way"
The sport of tomorrow will be ecological
Chloé tells her dream, the one of a world where sport is at the service of causes that are important to us by sharing the 0 Mégot adventure.
