"I carefully sort glass, cardboard, plastic, but apple peels, it hurts my heart to send them to the dumpster", testifies Laura above her trash can in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.
Like many others, its town hall has not set up a special bin for this garbage which decomposes and is called bio-waste.
According to an OpinionWay study for Sphere that we are unveiling (carried out online with a sample of 3,003 people representative of the French population), 69% of French people who do not have a collection in their municipalities would like a solution for this part organic from their trash.
The youngest seem the most motivated: 81% of those under 35 are asking for a pickup.
“It's absurd, we burn this waste when it is 90% water.
And they weigh up to 30% of private litter!
»Annoys John Persenda, CEO of Sphere, one of the first manufacturers of compostable organic bags with the Alfapac brand.
Not to mention that collecting and processing these food scraps or cut branches represents a big energy expenditure and produces a lot of greenhouse gases.
However, in 2023, we will all have to go to compost.
The law for the circular economy and recycling provides that as of December 31, all French people have a practical solution to transform our garbage into fertilizer.
This is still far from being the case throughout the territory, but certain communities such as Colmar, Grasse or Montpellier have already set up a special bin and rounds of trucks for this garbage.
“Less than 20% of this waste that is managed” blows John Persenda.
Pauline Debrabandère of the NGO Zerowaste France explains that communities often hesitate for fear of the costs involved;
“In fact, these investments are largely offset by the fall in the costs of managing the normal trash, residual household waste.
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"There are plenty of solutions that don't take up too much space"
For individuals, the main obstacle to the development of composting is the lack of space.
"It is true that it is easier to imagine a composter in a garden, I do not see adding a large bin in my micro-kitchen", testifies Stéphane from Montrouge (Hauts-de-Seine).
Like him, almost half of the French 47% indicate that they do not have enough space to compost, it is even more marked among those who live in apartments (56%).
“This is not a reason, decrypts the pedagogue Pauline Debrandère.
There are plenty of solutions that don't take up too much space: in the case of collections organized by communities, we have simple small buckets in the kitchens that we pour into collective bins.
In the case of a collective supply point, like the same, we can bring these bioslings to the corner of the street like the composting chalets in Besançon.
There are also very compact vermicomposters for apartments.
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At our neighbors, in Milan (Italy) for example, the collection of leftover meals has for years been able to obtain an astronomical quantity of fertilizer which then restores the soil.