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VIDEO. Household waste sorting now simplified in France

2023-01-20T16:57:21.608Z


Since January 1, all packaging must be thrown into the yellow recycling bins. The new "tri-info" logo is


No more headaches in front of the trash cans when throwing away your waste.

Cardboard boxes, tubes, compote gourds, cans, aerosols, capsules, aluminum medicine tablets...

From now on, absolutely all packaging must be thrown into the yellow recycling bin.

Until recently, many tubes of toothpaste, catering trays or yogurt pots escaped sorting and ended up in the household waste bin, gray or green depending on the location, for lack of recycling channels.

“We're just going to ask that they be empty.

We only want empty packaging, but there will be no need for additional gestures on the part of the inhabitant”, explains Anne Traband, “material” engineer at the Syctom sorting center in Paris Batignolles, 17th arrondissement.

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The site has taken a lead over the rest of the country: here, since 2019, we have benefited from simplified instructions for sorting packaging, which have just been generalized on January 1 to almost all of France.

“We, we tell you: “put all the packaging” and behind it, it is up to us, the community, to sort and separate the good materials.

Then they go to recycling plants.

In these recycling plants, we will create secondary raw materials, or even recreate new materials again,” continues the engineer.

A new “tri-info” logo has also appeared.

According to Bérangère Couillard, Secretary of State for Ecology, "the signage that accompanies this logo gives more information to the French about their sorting gestures".

More readable, it must therefore indicate precisely where to dispose of the used product to promote the collection and recycling of waste, while the plastic recycling rate is only 30% in France.

Source: leparis

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