The City of Paris adopted a plan on Wednesday December 18 to reduce its quantity of waste by 10% and triple its recovery rate in five years. A major challenge because the city is a poor student when it comes to sorting.
The Paris Council unanimously adopted this Wednesday a plan aimed at reducing the quantity of household waste produced in the capital by 100,000 tonnes by 2030.
Development of collective composting, generalization of deposits for containers in supermarkets, zero cigarette butts thrown on public roads… In total, 24 measures should make it possible to reduce the volume of waste by 10% in five years.
This would represent a drop of 20% compared to 2010, or five points more than the objective set by the anti-waste law for a circular economy (Agec), explained Antoine Guillou, deputy to the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo in responsible for cleanliness.
“Through this plan, we are planning a profound transformation of our modes of production and consumption, a circular economy where the superfluous no longer has a place and where reuse and recycling are the norm,” explains it in the town hall press release.
With a volume of waste representing 433 kilos per year per inhabitant, the capital is slightly below the national average.
Parisians, on the other hand, are “bad sorters”: 29% of their waste is sorted, and only 20% is ultimately recovered due to sorting errors (neither incinerated nor buried). Much less than the national average, underlines the elected official.
The other objective of this plan is to triple this recovery rate, to reach 60% within five years, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked to their processing by 32%.
25 million euros saved in the long term according to the town hall
To arrive at this figure, the municipality intends to generalize home collections of objects, already deployed in certain places for large household appliances, by extending them to furniture or even mattresses. The challenge is to limit the deposit on the sidewalks, where bulky items become damaged, which slows down their reuse.
“Donation terminals” (for electronic devices, textiles, toys, etc.) must be installed in “several hundred” public facilities. The number of “Trilib'” terminals equipped with probes to adjust the frequency of collections will increase from 400 to 500 in 2025.
The introduction of “incentive pricing” for professionals should also encourage “good sorters”, according to the town hall. Maud Gatel, from the Modem et Indépendants group, wanted the same incentive to be tested for individuals, which the municipal executive rejected, judging the measure inapplicable in collective housing.
The town hall also plans to create a thousand “zero waste” buildings, with training programs, assistance with the redevelopment of garbage rooms and also the installation of compost bins.
The cost is estimated at 6 million euros per year, but the plan “should ultimately save 25 million euros” by reducing the cost of garbage collection, anticipates Antoine Guillou.
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