Electrolux employees team up with the Surfrider Foundation to collect plastic debris for the Vac from the Sea-project. Where? The beaches and piers of les Leques at St Cyr-sur-Mer, in the South of France.

 
Plastic litter is a well known problem along the Mediterranean coasts. Sometimes the debris lays visible on the beach. Sometimes it is hidden from the human eye, between the stones or under the sand.

 
The plastic is shoveled into garbage bags. Some of it will be used to produce the vacuum cleaner from the sea.

 
Plastics can be wedged in between rocks and stones for years, because of the slow degradation process.

 
Some of the found debris has been flushed out from the beaches. Other debris has been dumped directly into the sea from boats.

 
The wrong thing in the wrong place.

 
Some debris is difficult to reach.

 
A full day's work results in many garbage bags.

 
Mission accomplished. The collected plastic is ready to be sent to the Electrolux design studio to finally become a Vac from the Sea.