the largest urban community in France changes the rules for waste collection

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In Yvelines, residents of the Grand Paris Seine & Oise (GPS&O) urban community must now adopt new reflexes when taking out their trash. Since this 1^is October 2024the terms of waste collection have changed after the harmonization of the rates of the household waste removal tax (TEOM) almost a year ago.

Four rates for as many levels of service. This, in summary, is the policy in force today within GPS&O. By subscribing to this regulatory obligation on the scale of its territory, the urban community aims to “optimize collection means, harmonize the service offering offered to residents and better control of expenses in a context of constant increase in collection costs.

A la carte services

Costs which have jumped by 6% in two years, according to GPS&O. The reform must make it possible toincrease the revenue collected by the community of €9.2 million, thus feeding the budget linked to waste management, still in deficit at €8 million in 2023.

This phase of concrete implementation reveals the winners and losers of the tough negotiation carried out by the 73 mayors concerned. Each of them had until the end of 2023 to choose the level of service from which their citizens would benefit and therefore the associated TEOM rate.

A more expensive tax in the municipalities of ex-Camy

The municipalities formerly members of the agglomeration community of Mantes-en-Yvelines (Camy) have all seen the TEOM rate increase.

“At the national level, the TEOM is 9% on average. »

Winners

“The urban community had to comply with the regulations this year, which in any case was going to cause an increase,” continues the elected official from Épône, who opted for the level 4, the most complete of those proposed. Residents would not have understood that the price was increasing while the service was degraded. »

Limay, Issou and Guitrancourt are some of the municipalities to get away with it since their TEOM has fallen. In Issou, for example, it stands at 7.52% for a service equivalent to that which residents already knew, almost three points less than before the reform. The situation inevitably delights the municipality and makes people envious in the surrounding communities.

Concessions elsewhere

Most cities have had to make concessions regarding the services offered to the population, particularly for treatment of glass, bulky items and plant waste.

Thus Yann Perron, mayor of Gargenville, was already trying in June 2023 to convince his constituents during a public meeting that the use of points ofvoluntary contribution and to the twelve recycling centers in the urban community was the most economically viable solution.

“Landfilling and incineration will be taxed more heavily by the state in the future. »

The councilor recognized, however, that the recycling center present in the commune required expensive expansion works difficult to integrate into an already struggling Community budget.

In Porcheville, we feel wronged

This is the spacing of green waste collections which raises eyebrows in Porcheville. During the last meeting of the municipal council, opposition representative Bruno Morosinotto-Hamot was surprised “that green waste only passes every two weeks, and no longer every week”.

The municipality has in fact opted for level 3, like the majority of municipalities. “With inflation, that’s an increase of 94% all the same,” added Bruno Morosinotto-Hamot. “The increase was expected, but not the reduction in the number of passages“, admitted Mayor Alec Jaltier, assuring that he “had been fooled”.

Same story in Épône. “It is true that it is a subtlety that had somewhat escaped us,” recognizes Isabelle Martin. It’s a question of cost. GPS&O also pursues the objective of reducing the volume of waste collected. »

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