A bin for packaging, another for glass, a third for garden waste... And here's the last one: the bin dedicated to bio-waste, those leftover meals and kitchen peelings that previously went into the garbage bag residual housewives.
Since January 1, the law provides for allowing all individuals to have a practical solution for sorting biowaste.
Objective: to recycle them into fertilizer or biogas to reduce the volume of our incinerated waste.
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The deposit is enormous: 82 kg per inhabitant, or more than 950,000 tonnes each year, according to figures from the Île-de-France Regional Waste Observatory.
Almost a third of our trash goes up in smoke when it could return to the earth.
The challenge is just as high: incineration capacity is down by 380,000 tonnes in 2024 (- 9%), while regulations impose a gradual reduction in landfill capacity (- 56%) by to 2028.
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