Neighbors of the Vallon du Fou waste treatment center, in Martigues, are directly exposed to rubbish and other pestilential odors. “It smells like rotten fish and corpses”: in Bouches-du-Rhône, an open-air landfill upsets local residents.
On site, the observation is staggering: hundreds of plastic bags, cardboard packaging and other debris of all kinds sit in the open air on a hill. Aix-Marseille-Provence promises through its vice-president, Roland Mouren, that the rubbish which litters the slopes of the Ventrons will disappear in February.