This is not a surprise as the reason for their creation and mobilization is similar: the rejection of the reform carried out by the Intercommunal Household Waste Collection Union (Smicval). This marks the end of door-to-door waste collection and establishes voluntary drop-off points.
“Michel (Vilatte, creator of the Porte-à-porte collective, Editor’s note), came to our first meeting in Saint-Martin Lacaussade,” recalls Arnaud Bobet, the president of the association Union for the Defense of Citizens of Haute Gironde (UDCHG ), member of the Touche pas à mes vins collective and municipal councilor in opposition to the mayor of Saint-André-de-Cubzac.
But this time, it's official, Do not touch my trash and Porte-à-Porte have decided to come together, “in a transpartisan approach”, underlines Michel Vilatte, municipal councilor of the majority in Saint-André-de-Cubzac . History to affirm that the discontent goes well beyond political currents. “At first, I tried to discuss the reform within the team but, apart from Mathieu Caillaud, I was isolated. I did not question the entire reform but I wanted to maintain door-to-door canvassing. In fact, there was no debate, it’s still curious that we can’t debate when we’re on the same political side,” he quips.
“It is not a political posture or the opinion of a few but the population and elected officials who are fed up”
Like many others, he learned of the announcement of the implementation of the reform through the press. So, tired of war, Michel Vilatte decided to create Porte-à-Porte, “based on attachment to public service. The objective was to convince left-wing mayors to get Smicval to review its copy. We also organized a few public meetings and launched a petition which has 1,000 signatures. This allowed us to see people’s dismay and the massive rejection of the reform.” A reform that the municipal councilor of Saint-André perceives as a catastrophe and “an incitement to incivility and delinquency”.
Double lame
This reinforcement is, of course, appreciated by Touche pas à mes trash. “This will give more weight to our legal actions,” comments Arnaud Bobet. The filing of a request on the merits with the administrative court of Bordeaux was made last Monday. “In this request, we are asking for the same thing that Cali (Communauté d'agglomération de Libourne, Editor's note) obtained, mediation to achieve a moratorium. We did not want to immediately move towards a request for a suspensive interim order. This will be the subject of another legal stage based on the loss of public service and the inequality of treatment between citizens. It is not a political posture or the opinion of a few but, he postulates, the population and elected officials who are fed up. »
For the two collectives, the decision taken by Smicval “is legal and illegitimate. We must revolutionize an overhaul of its statutes to respond to greater representation of the territory. Why not establish an advisor per municipality, for example.”
Meetings
The Porte-à-Porte collective also created the Association for the Defense of Public Services in Rurality, known as Bien vivre en ruralité, to be able to take legal action. A conference-debate is planned for Thursday, November 28, at the Salle du Mascaret in Saint-André-de-Cubzac (7 p.m.). The same day, Touche pas à mes Poubelle organized its first meeting in Fronsadais, in Saint-Genès-de-Fronsac.
