No longer being the garbage can of Ile-de-France. This slogan is taken up by all the candidates for the departmental elections in Seine-et-Marne ... with more or less conviction. In 2016, the departmental majority (LR-Agir-UDI-DVD) agreed to deal with ECT, the leading French group for the storage of inert materials. Against one million euros, it withdrew its appeals formulated before the administrative justice against the extension authorizations granted to Annet-sur-Marne and Villeneuve-sous-Dammartin. Since then, 6.8 million tonnes of additional construction soil can be stored at these two sites.
With the result thousands of trucks in addition, which pollute and damage the roads at the expense of the taxpayer.
But also the birth of mounds which modify the landscape.
“The majority went to bed in front of the interests of waste reception centers and large public works companies,” laments Bénédicte Monville (EELV), regional councilor and candidate for departmental in Melun.
A few months later, the Paris administrative court, at the request of the regional prefect, canceled the regional plan for the prevention and management of waste from building and public works sites (Prédec) putting an end to the three-year moratorium. decided in 2015, at the instigation of the left-wing majority, concerning the creation and extension of storage sites in Seine-et-Marne.
45 million tonnes to be stored somewhere
Since then, the voice of the department, quite thunderous before, is no longer heard on the subject. A new regional waste management plan was adopted in 2019, with complete discretion, taking into account administrative case law. "The share of site waste entering Seine-et-Marne has decreased by 30%", assures Patrick Septiers, the president (UDI) of the department, candidate for the canton of Montereau-Moret. At stake, the fate in particular of inert waste from the Grand Paris Express construction sites, i.e. 45 million tonnes that must be put somewhere, while until 2019, 80% of this mass already landed in the north-west. of the department.
“There may have been a slight redistribution in other departments but it was not showing.
There is in any case no moratorium for Seine-et-Marne as we had obtained.
Especially since we also welcome deconstruction waste from the inner suburbs which, unlike land, is polluted, ”annoys Julie Gobert (PS), outgoing candidate in Champs-sur-Marne.
“Yes, we want to be an attractive department, not a land of waste, agrees Patrick Septiers.
In the years to come, we may be able to renegotiate a bit.
But there are municipalities that are linked to these landfills, this brings them taxes or work paid by these storage companies.
And you can't change business contracts overnight either. ”
"We must ensure that they stay where they are produced"
Proof for Aymeric Durox, boss of the National Rally and candidate for Nangis, that the question is above all political. “Being the same color as the majority of the region is not an advantage because there is no counterweight. The outgoing departmental majority has not sufficiently defended Seine-et-Marne, he believes. Especially since the Seine-et-Marnais pay the Grand Paris tax with very little direct benefit from these new infrastructures. "
Jean-François Parigi, deputy (LR), candidate for Meaux who is aiming for the presidency, makes this subject “his hobbyhorse”.
“We will ask for a fair balance throughout Ile-de-France.
The State pretends the general interest with the Olympic Games and the Greater Paris, the local elected officials give only a simple opinion, he regrets.
And if it is necessary to tax this waste which enters the department, I will find a legal arrangement to do so.
Only the State has the competence to set up a new tax system.
The agreement signed with ECT also provided for a contribution of up to 500,000 euros for the establishment of a recycling platform for this site waste requested by Jean-Jacques Barbaux, the former president (LR) of the department. , and participation in the repair of roads around the five ECT sites in Seine-et-Marne.
"There has never been a follow-up on this recycling channel", summarizes Julie Gobert (PS). "If Jean-Jacques Barbaux had not died mid-term, he would have pushed this project", assures Jean-François Parigi. But for Julie Gobert, it is necessary to go beyond this debate to welcome or not these construction sites. “You have to invest in research and development to add value to them. And ensure that they stay where they are produced, she insists. Without forgetting a reflection so as not to have any more modification of the landscapes. "