Published on December 15, 2024 at 09:43. / Modified on December 15, 2024 at 09:54.
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Every Sunday evening for about a year, it’s been the same parade in front of the Building with supervision for elderly people (IEPA) La Forêt, near the Route de Meyrin. Garbage bags taken from brand new neighboring buildings are stored at the sector’s ecopoint. Dumpsters are overflowing and piles of garbage, boxes and PET are piling up on the sidewalk. The midges cluster together and passers-by hold their noses. “It’s disgusting,” breathes Robert, a septuagenarian who gets around on crutches. There’s not enough space for all this waste.” The passage of the road, expected the next day, will calm the consternation of this resident, for a short time.
This little maneuver is not without consequences on the lives of households. On the IEPA balconies overlooking the waste collection point, there are no chairs or flower pots. “Between the smells and the noise, I never go there,” confides a tenant. A renunciation of its outdoor space which it largely attributes to the ecopoint, overtaken by its success with the arrival of some 700 new residents in the neighborhood last year.
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