Coutances Mer et Bocage launches local “Leboncoin”

In 2019the communities of communes Côte Ouest Center Manche and Coutances Mer et Bocage had come together to develop, on their territories, a circular economy approach in order toinvolve local businesses in a better resource management. Covid, with its periods of confinement and the departure of a representative on the circular economy, has stopped this project.

A collaborative approach

Today, the Coutançaise intercommunality, which obtained the Territory committed to ecological transition label last October, is relaunching this initiative by having recruited a referent on this subject.

This action targets local businesses but also communities, associations and public establishments.

“It offers a collaborative approach which is based on the voluntary sharing of resources in order to optimize their use, save them or enhance them. » The idea is to promote “synergies by pooling resources, skills or spaces”.

The field is wide. This can range from reusing materials to sharing premises for storage or setting up, or even organizing, training, such as, for example, the Certificate of Aptitude for Safe Driving of Machines, including areas such as water, energy, transport…

Three participatory workshops

The waste field offers an opportunity to improve local recycling, such as that of cardboard boxes which can find a second use with a local parcel shipping company.

Waste can thus become a resource.

In passing, the elected representative recalls that companies have “the obligation to manage their waste”.

To bring this collaborative approach to life, the community of municipalities is supported, for two years, by a Breton service provider: TyWaste. An online platform dedicated to professionals allows them to offer services or post advertisements to promote resources and thus generate cooperation between neighboring companies.

Three participatory workshops, entitled “resource exchanges”, led by TyWaste, are scheduled “to exchange, identify synergies and build common projects”.

The first will take place on Thursday, January 23, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., at the community center of Montmartin-sur-Mer, the second on March 14 at the Coutances Town Hall and the third on April 24 on a site not yet defined.

This approach launched by Coutances Mer and Bocage has examples on the national territory but it is a first in the Manche region.

Registration for online participatory workshops: tywaste.fr/accueil-cmb

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