“It could be a lot cleaner, people are not civilized. There are, however, trash cans everywhere. ” The road worker met on a sidewalk in the capital has a hard tooth for Parisians. Since confinement, the volume of garbage left on the street seems to have increased. Masks, gloves thrown on the ground, broken trash cans, sidewalks overgrown with refuse ... The traces of the reduction of cleaning routes are clearly visible.
The Town Hall of Paris has taken the measure of the phenomenon and notes through the voice of its first assistant to cleanliness: "Incivilities which overload the officers' work". An increase in garbage, in particular due, according to Paul Simondon, to the large number of people "in very great precariousness" and "on the street" in certain districts of the capital.
To try to stem the phenomenon, the municipality asked the green light of the government for the creation of a new contravention. A report which would go beyond the 68 € already sanctioning the jets of garbage and butts on the public highway.