Back to basics: this is somewhat the objective of the law which requires communities to offer their citizens, since January 1, 2024, a solution for sorting biowaste, as leftover meals and peelings are called.
“For centuries, this waste constituted a resource for peri-urban agriculture,” recalls the Paris Region Institute.
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Until the prefect of the Seine, Eugène Poubelle, in 1884 required Parisian owners to equip each building with common containers to improve the health of the capital's streets.
Initially, three boxes are required, including one for putrescible materials.
But the need to organize regular collection spells the end of these good practices.
One hundred and forty years later, Eugène Poubelle's ideas are emerging from the boxes, but many communities are not ready, far from it.
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