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Sorting your waste, a gesture not yet automatic for the French

2022-03-18T20:02:46.628Z


On the occasion of World Recycling Day, individuals, associations, or even large groups such as Suez have multiplied the messages of encouragement.


Sorting waste is one of the actions most identified and practiced by the French to work in favor of ecology.

From an early age, children are educated to meet environmental needs and to practice simple gestures.

On the occasion of World Recycling Day, Citeo, a company specializing in the recycling of household packaging, warns of the vital need to sort and recycle its waste.

Because according to her, "

3 out of 4 French people would continue to express doubts about the right way to sort their packaging and their papers

", which could, in the long term, discourage them.

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This world day is therefore supposed to raise awareness and mobilize people around a capital initiative: the recycling of waste.

Individuals on social networks, associations, or even large groups like Suez, all went there with their incentive message.

Regional disparities

Today, approximately 70% of household packaging is recycled.

However, large disparities remain depending on the materials (90% for glass, 48% for aluminum, or even 30% for plastic) which can be explained by the message sent to the French at the start of major recycling campaigns : “

In 1992

,

we started by asking the French to sort only the bottles and flasks in the sorting bins

,” explains Jean Hornain, CEO of Citeo.

For other packaging, we had to wait for recycling capacities to develop

,” he adds.

Habits which have, in fact, been put in place over time in French households and which still prevent the proper recycling of the most polluting materials.

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Disparities are also observed depending on the region, the Bretons, for example, recycle on average more than 100 kg of waste per year, against only 35 to 40 kg for the inhabitants of large cities.

Fundamental work, therefore, which would make it possible to achieve the supreme objective of the large recycling companies: to ensure the recyclability of 100% of the products.

According to Jean Hornain, this will involve eco-design, the simplification of sorting at all levels, and the development of recycling channels.

Simplify the sorting process

For several years, the watchword of the major players in recycling has been simplification.

Rather than "

confusing

" households with different colors of bins, different actions depending on the material, they now suggest taking the sorting process on their own, especially on plastic waste, to avoid confusion in households. .

The challenge is to allow individuals to pour their plastic packaging into the sorting bin without wondering the color of the bin in which they should put them.

"

Behind, we are modernizing our sorting centers to be able to capture all these new resins

", adds Jean Hornain.

A process of modernization which, according to him, should see the light of day at the end of 2023, coupled with a harmonization of everyday gestures.

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A simplification for the French certainly, but why not incentives for recycling?

"

We have to find new incentive levers

", further suggests the director of the household packaging recycling company, betting on an incentive pricing system: "

You pay for your household waste according to the number of times you go out your trash can.

This allows you to better manage your waste and encourages you to make this effort

,” he explains.

In parallel with this simplification, the challenge is also - and above all - to be able to establish habits and reflexes in all households.

We have to make sorting a real reflex in everyday life, a trend

“, reports the general manager of Citeo.

Because even if 89% of French people say they do sorting, only 50% specify that they do it every day, and wherever they are.

Substantive work therefore remains to be done, but very well off according to Jean Hornain: "

We must not forget that 30 years ago, we still had landfills in the open

," he jokes.

Source: lefigaro

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