President of the Western Rhone Urban Community (C or), Patrice Verchère responded by letter to Quicury during the first half of November. A letter where the elected official made everyone face their responsibilities.
While the Quicury collective threatens to file a complaint against companies in the Val de Turdine that do not respect waste disposal rules and against encouraged them to take the necessary steps. “Since reading your letter, you seem to be better informed than we are about the origin of certain illegal dumping, “we have observed on several occasions that it is the same SMEs which repeat these illegal acts”, I strongly invites you to report these criminal offenses to the competent authorities,” declared the elected official.
Targeted businesses, mayors and population
Not without having previously presented everyone with their responsibilities, starting with the mayors. “Regarding illegal dumping or other illegal disposal practices, the mayor remains the administrative police authority of the municipality. Consequently, only the mayor has police power to enforce the ban on abandonment or uncontrolled elimination of waste on the territory of his municipality,” specifies the mayor of Cours before qualifying his remarks.
The councilor adds in fact the difficult implementation of police power in small municipalities in the territory of the Cor since most of them do not have municipal police. In fact, the chief magistrate Coursiaud invites the population to demonstrate a civic and civic spirit.
The C or competent to manage household waste
By taking up his hat as president of the C or, Mr. Verchère reminds the Quicury collective that the management of waste from businesses in the Val de Turdine is not the responsibility of the intercommunality. “First of all, I would like to remind you that C or is responsible for ensuring the management of household and similar waste only. It has no obligation for waste from professional activities, with companies having to ensure the collection and treatment of their waste themselves, he introduces. In the event that they do not use a service provider, they can nevertheless entrust the management of their waste assimilated to that of households (household waste and packaging only) to C or, upon payment of a special fee or go in recycling centers for waste from economic activities (such as Placoplatre for example). »
And while Quicury mentioned in its letter that “C or regularly mentions a high cost of processing household and recyclable waste on the grounds of the presence of inappropriate waste in the bins concerned”, Patrice Verchère informs the collective that the characterization of the packaging household products carried out on September 25 by S ytraival ( Joint union for the elimination, treatment and recovery of waste Beaujolais-Dombes, Editor’s note ) “did not reveal an over-representation of waste from professionals but more bad practices from users. »
