MonaCollecte, the Principality’s popular recycling and reuse drive, returns for its fifth edition from 6th to 7th March.
Organised by the Prince’s Governments and the Société Monégasque d’Assainissement, this year’s event centres on the theme of ‘Zero Waste’ and takes place at the Chapiteau de Fontvieille.
MonaCollecte’s purpose is to bring together residents willing to embrace greener habbits through a mix of collections, hands-on workshops and awareness activities.
A workshop for every interest
Visitors can choose from an impressive range of activities across the two days. Aspiring chefs can discover zero-waste cooking through creative recipes designed to cut food waste, while those with a crafty streak can try making their own reusable bread bags, homemade cosmetics, or plant pots from empty containers.
There is also a workshop turning advertising banners into pouches, another creating art from reclaimed cables and computer parts, and one where participants build a small object from scratch using recycled plastic.
For families, a VR workshop offers an immersive experience inside a sorting centre to learn how to recycle correctly, and an outdoor circuit lets younger children sort waste while riding tricycles and scooters. A drawing competition on the zero-waste theme will also take place.
Ocean pollution is also set to take centre stage during the event. In one of the workshops, participants will be able to rescue mârché sea creatures trapped in symbolic waste.
La Mairie’s stand
La Mairie will host two days of activities. On Friday, the Médiathèque Caroline will run a workshop making bookmarks from reclaimed fabric scraps aimed primarily at schoolchildren from 9am, before opening to the wider public until 5pm.
Then, on Saturday, the focus shifts to repair. In partnership with the Repair Café de Nice association, the Mùnegu Repair Café will be on hand from 10am to 6pm to fix everyday portable object brought in by visitors.
Alongside this, the Médiathèque Caroline will display its collection of zero-waste resources, run a second round of the bookmark workshop, and invite people to donate clean, good-condition tote bags to stock its fabric bag lending library.
The event runs from 10am to 7pm on both days with free entry.
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Main photo credit: Société Monégasque d’Assainissement