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The job clearly is too big and onerous for one man to perform, but Jody Aveline has vowed to keep the city of Montreal clean of discarded personal protective equipment.
For the last seven months, the Verdun activist has been patrolling the city — mostly by bike, occasionally by foot and regardless of the weather — picking up discarded masks and gloves thrown to the ground.
Using a metre-long stick with a nail attached at the end, he stabs at the PPE, puts them in trash bags that are dragged by a trailer attached to his bike. Once home, Aveline cuts the strings from the masks, disposing properly of everything he has gathered.
“I figured I had to get involved,” the 49-year-old told the Montreal Gazette on Sunday by telephone. “Environmentally-wise, this is catastrophic to our climate. These masks are ending up in our natural environment.”
As of Saturday Aveline, who keeps a log, had picked up 11,664 masks and 1,756 gloves. He performs this task daily, often lasting between two and four hours. His travels have taken him as far as east-end Montreal and north to Jean-Talon St. He even once ventured to both Nuns’ Island and Longueuil.
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