Canteens: Paris embarks on the plastic hunt

Health is priceless. Finally, if: 4.5 million euros. This is the sum that the City of Paris will put on the table to eliminate plastic from these canteens. “This Wednesday at the Paris Council, we will vote on an exit plan for plastic with an initial envelope of 400,000 euros, specifies Audrey Pulvar (Paris en Commun) deputy in charge of sustainable food, agriculture and short circuits. Municipal catering, in schools, nurseries, nursing homes, emerald or administrative restaurants or even food aid, that represents some 30 million meals per year in 1,300 establishments. For example, we use 67,000 bowls or ramekins per day. So even though we already have moderate plastic usage, it is still too much. »Bins for storing foodstuffs, for manufacturing them,films on the trays, trays to put down his plate are in the viewfinder of the elected Parisian.

Stainless steel trays with cells

“Eliminating them will take time, this entire term.

From the end of the year and in 2022, we will train the teams with the new equipment.

It's a kind of transition, continues the ex-journalist.

By changing our habits, we must also change the machines, but also take into account ergonomics and the operations carried out by the agents.

Thus, we will have stainless steel trays with cells for children.

Some told us that it was a prison, but they were successfully adopted by the children of the 12th arrondissement.

The lids of the trays can also be made of bamboo fiber or cardboard.

And in the end, in our tests, with these changes, officers are handling 900 kg less per day.

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© PHOTO / LE PARISIEN / FREDERIC DUGIT SociétéParis Ier School canteen

Having less plastic in rivers and responding to concerns about endocrine disruptors is the double challenge of this great anti-plastic crossroads.

The City therefore has a little less than 5 years to reach its objective of zero plastic in addition to that of the quality of the meals.

The countdown begins.