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After closing the Figeac sorting center at the end of 2021, Syded du Lot reveals that it has launched a global review of the entire Nayrac site which it owns with the objective of thoroughly reorganizing the recycling center. An innovative project is unveiled by the director of the union, Muriel Descamp.
Closed since the end of 2021, the former Figeac sorting center located in Nayrac has not regained activity. Grand Figeac, which wanted to develop an artisan hotel there, put the project on hold due to a lack of candidates. For his part, the owner of the premises, Syded du Lot, has considered several options for reconversion. Muriel Descamp, director of the departmental union, first explains the difficulties weighing on this dormant site. “To reuse the old sorting center building, we would have very heavy constraints and investments, particularly in relation to the fire risk because the regulations have evolved over the years. But we have nevertheless made progress on this site. The building today serves as a transfer dock to optimize the management of packaging and papers collected throughout Grand Figeac. The other part of this building is used as a garage for Syded vehicles. Muriel Descamp reveals that a much more global project has even been under study for several months in order to redevelop the entire Nayrac site. The Syded du Lot wishes to extend and thoroughly rethink the department’s 2nd recycling center.
Work launched in fall 2025
“The idea is to completely redevelop and enlarge the recycling center by integrating the circulation area and the old parking lots of the old sorting center. The project is to create a new generation recycling center with in particular flat deposit systems for plant waste unloaded on the ground, except clippings and leaves which will no longer be accepted as of January 1, 2025. We will try to facilitate disposal for our users with different guardrail systems and more broadly to put in place new sorting channels”. These new sorting channels will concern, for example, building waste such as plaster. The additional surface area recovered on the perimeter of the former sorting center will also make it possible to create a reuse space which has not been able to be established until now in Figeac due to lack of space. The project for this future recycling center is on track: the plans are finalized and the work schedule provides for a start within a year, in the fall of 2025.
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Another notable innovation: the installation of photovoltaic shades to shelter the drop-off docks. “We are considering this project for the installation of awnings in order to have shade on the platforms, an important development for agents and users. We have initiated a study on the other sites. Figeac will be our demonstrator site” underlines Muriel Descamp. The Syded du Lot wants to make Nayrac an exemplary site. The land where the landfill was located, the former waste landfill closed at the end of the 2000s and rehabilitated, will see photovoltaic panels flourish on its soil. An announcement confirmed by the director of Syded: “We cannot build on these lands. We waited for them to stabilize. We carried out a study to install 10,000 m2 of photovoltaic panels. We are working on this project with the SEM Lot Energies Nouvelles. “
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