Local authorities in Gironde will manage household canned waste

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In Gironde, having your waste incinerated costs three times more if you are a community that is not part of the Bordeaux metropolis. Thus, Semoctom (Entre-deux-Mers-Ouest union for the collection and treatment of household waste), which brings together 85 municipalities from Saint-Loubès to Cadillac, pays €165 including tax per tonne processed by the Bègles incinerators. or Cenon, compared to €50 for Bordeaux Métropole.
But this inequality should end in 2028, all Gironde communities have just agreed. They have undertaken to apply a single price per tonne incinerated, when renewing the public service delegation. In 2019, Veolia won the operation of the city's “energy recovery units”, offering an unbeatable price.

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Problem: the company, now in a monopoly situation, compensates for the shortfall in neighboring communities. Forced to use the department's only two incinerators to dispose of their waste, they saw their prices increase by 25 to 30%. An “abuse of dominant position” of which 11 communities of municipalities had complained to the prefecture. Abnormal, but “regular”, had ruled by the Regional Chamber of Accounts, seized in 2020.
Having become president of Bordeaux Métropole, Alain Anziani was committed to better cooperation with other Gironde communities. After several months of work under the coordination of Semoctom, the 14 public establishments and the Metropolis recorded during a meeting on November 29 the creation of a public interest group (GIP) which will bring them all together by the end 2025, in a governance that remains to be invented.

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