The stench is getting unbearable, says Sharon Au after garbage collection ceases for 11 days in Paris

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When the people want their voices heard, sometimes a way to do it is through a different sense — smell. In Instagram Stories shared between March 16 and 17, Sharon Au shared her thoughts on an ongoing protest in France and how it has even affected the smell of Parisian air. 'Eight thousand tonnes of garbage uncollected, piled up on...

When the people want their voices heard, sometimes a way to do it is through a different sense — smell.

"Eight thousand tonnes of garbage uncollected, piled up on the streets of Paris," the 47-year-old Singaporean former actress said. "France is on a nationwide protest against pension reform and this is the 11th day garbage collection is on strike.Sharon, who moved to Paris in 2018, added that even though the city has essentially been paralysed, two-thirds of the French support this movement.1.

Sharon graduated with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree from Waseda University in Tokyo back in 2011. "Now in the real world, as I live in a city with protests and strikes that aim to paralyse a country, I realise the ideologies stand, but human nature is much more complicated and policy reforms more often than not affect the majority of the working class and the low-income bracket."

 

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