Cigarette butts, straws and plastic bottles - Marseille's beaches may look pristine from afar, but up close, they're certainly not. With pollution an ongoing problem along its coastline, organisations like "Clean My Calanques" and "Wings of the Ocean" -- which raises awareness among schoolchildren -- hold regular cleaning drives, where volunteers can pick up as much as one tonne of garbage in a single evening. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES