On Tuesday, October 17, at 7 rue de Courseulles, the Ville de Rigaud will host a clean-up operation organized by PurNat, an innovative non-profit organization that has been cleaning up illegal dumps in Canada since 2013, and its partner, Cascades.

The event will be held in collaboration with Nature-Action Québec. The site where the event will take place belongs to this well-known environmental organization. 

The clean-up operation, reserved exclusively for Cascades employees, will start at 8:30 am.  Recognized as a leader in recycling and sustainable development, Cascades has great respect for natural and human resources, values that gave birth to the company nearly 60 years ago.

Since 2015, it will have removed several dozen tons of waste during various clean-up events organized in collaboration with PurNat.

"We would like to thank the volunteer involvement and mobilization of some one hundred Cascades employees across Canada, without whom this goal could not have been achieved so quickly. Thanks to their participation, we are restoring our forests to the purity and natural state they deserve" says PurNat in a press release. 

Real consequences

In addition to polluting the visual environment, landfill sites have serious consequences for the environment and the development of flora and fauna, notably through the contamination of streams and soils.

PurNat invites the public to identifier and denounce sites where waste is found. "It's thanks to citizen participation that such operations come to fruition", affirm Mr. Marcel Poiré, President and co-founder of PurNat.