Since the start of the year, around Brive (Corrèze), the collection of household waste by truck has been more frequent and residents are encouraged to travel to throw their waste at collective collection points.
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Yellow for plastic, cardboard and packaging. Blue for paper and newspapers. Red for metal, etc. These are terminals of different colors which overlook bins that are invisible because they are buried: these “columns”, dedicated to the collection of household waste, should be used more and more by residents of the Brive sector.
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Since the start of the year, around the Gaillarde city, truck collections have been spaced out more frequently and residents are encouraged to travel to throw away their waste.
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Indeed, Sirtom, the union that manages waste, has just implemented several new features, as its director Philippe Delpuch explains: “The collection frequency increases to once every 15 days for household waste collections, and the cost per liter of the columns decreases.”
-These decisions follow a change in the behavior of residents. The sorting of recyclable waste is booming, while the volumes of household waste are decreasing: “This is the first year where, in terms of literage, we collected more sorting than household waste”specifies the director of Sirtom.
By reducing the number of collections, the advantages seem numerous for Sirtom and for the community: less pollution linked to truck traffic, less wear and tear on the roads, less noise pollution caused during morning collections. This is why the union is now banking on buried columns:
When we collect a column, it's 4 or 5 m³ of waste in one go. By truck, you would have to drive over quite a few homes.
Philippe Delpuch,director of Sirtom
To encourage users to use the columns, Sirtom applies a 20% discount on each contribution to a collection point. The badges required to open the terminals are available free of charge on the internet.
On the user side, some still have questions, like this resident of the sector: “It’s practical if it’s not very far, but if there is a distance, it’s more annoying, especially if there are a lot of things to transport.” But Philippe Delpuch reassures those who are still reluctant: “The main collection will still be door-to-door collection. This is simply a second option that allows people to come 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.”
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