When we meet Erik, he has been on the road for six hours. “It’s going well. We’re keeping up the pace,” he laughs. His message is very clear: those rivers must be cleaner. Recent research from Utrecht University shows that although less plastic enters the oceans, more waste remains on the riverbanks. “We can’t let that happen, can we?” Erik sighs.
Erik is walking the entire Lekdijk today to clean up: ‘Hoppa, only 63 kilometers left’
