WE TALK ABOUT MY ACTIONS

2021

"In 2017, Edmund Platt hitchhiked 8000 km to pick up waste. A three-month experience that he collected in a book entitled "The Englishman who wanted to clean up France". The English snail was passing through Arlon this Thursday to sign his book. We met him.

15.10.2021 - SUD INFO - LIEN ARTICLE

“Over 150 m, we picked up 17 masks”

Edmund Platt, Luxembourg

"In 2017, his 8,000 km journey to collect waste passed through the Grand Duchy. Edmund Platt recounts this adventure in a book."

12.10.2021 - THE ESSENTIAL - ARTICLE LINK

“I was drawing my route on a map that was taking more and more the shape of a snail shell, a local journalist then gave me this nickname which I kept”

Edmund Platt, Lille

"On September 8, Edmund Platt, or English Snail for his friends, stopped over in Lille for a signing session for his first book, The Englishman who wanted to clean up France. We met him to talk a bit about everything this: his book, his crusade against pollution, on his approach to picking up one piece of waste a day and the obligation to consume less. "

09/20/2021 - VOZER - LIEN ARTICLE

“There is more plastic on the ground in France than mushrooms”

Edmund Platt, Douarnenez

"For this resolutely punk whistleblower, plastic pollution can be summed up in "the story of the four Cs: everyone concerned, guilty, able to act and change our habits." Through his adventures, the author who rode in 150 different cars and picked up between 75,000 and two million pieces of trash asks an essential question: "How did we get into this mess?"

23.03.2021 - WEST FRANCE - ARTICLE LINK

"A roadbook loaded with magic rants, solidarity. Why this former salesman and English teacher who became a frontline activist-cleaner, speaker and writer, traveled 8,000 km with his thumbs up to pick up the waste that one in three French people always throws out of his car?"

23.03.2021 - THE INDEPENDENT - ARTICLE LINK

“The human is incredible. He can destroy everything and offer everything.”

Edmund Platt, Carnouaille

"In 2017, Edmund Platt hitchhiked 8,000 km around France to raise awareness about waste reduction. His book is available as an e-book. The first copies have just been published here, in Cornwall. Meeting with a "British" without filter.

18.03.2021 - THE TELEGRAM - ARTICLE LINK

"The English snail" and the "Marseille boar" arrived in Paris on November 29. On foot from Marseille, following the roads as close as possible to the TGV line. Eight hundred and fifteen kilometers in a zigzag, 20 kilos on the back and fifty-nine days walking, talking to people, sleeping in tents or with locals…”