Tin cans, cardboard packaging, plastic bottles… The volume of waste continues to increase in the French people's bins.
This is what Ademe (Ecological Transition Agency) notes, in a report published this Friday.
In 2017, the total quantity of household and similar waste in France (including both household and neighborhood shops as well as the volumes collected in recycling centers) stood at 37.6 million tonnes against 36.7 Mt in 2007. That is an increase of + 2.4%, indicates the Modecom report, the third survey of its kind in thirty years.
Individually, each French person has however reduced their own waste production by 2%, to 580 kg per person per year in 2017, against 592 kg in 2007, the report notes.
The difference can be explained by the increase in the population, but also by the sharp increase (+ 32%) in waste collection.
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The individual decrease is also explained by the increase in the fight against food waste, as well as by the increase in crushing and composting in gardens, which in some cases reduced the volumes of "green waste", indicates Marc Cheverry. , Director of Circular Economy and Waste at ADEME, who coordinated the survey.
Between green trash, yellow trash, glass collector, and recycling center, the report notes a very sharp drop in the volumes collected in green trash (general purpose), and a slight increase in the volumes of yellow trash cans intended for recycling.
He also notes that sorting procedures could "be further improved".
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"It is estimated that 80% of the content of green bins could be taken care of in recycling (yellow bin) or organic channels, adds Marc Cheverry, admitting that very few communities still offer organic waste or bio-waste collection services. : this is the case in Besançon, Grenoble, or even La Rochelle for example.
However, they will be mandatory from the start of 2024, in accordance with the law of January 1, 2020 on the circular economy.