Cycling - Tour de France - The 208-km Stage 18 from Embrun to Valloire - July 25, 2019 - Staff of the publicity caravan carry out water bottles. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
PARIS (Reuters) - The corporate "caravan" that motors across valleys and mountains ahead of the cyclists competing in the Tour de France has been a crowd-pleaser for decades, but ecologists want organisers to put an end to the avalanche of plastic it generates.
Every day of the Tour, the event's corporate sponsors cover the route in a column of open-backed trucks that stretches for kilometres, throwing out snacks, drinks, t-shirts, keyrings and other objects, many of them made or wrapped in plastic.
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