The huge cable-stayed structure will not disappear from the landscape of eastern Paris, it will even be enlarged. This is one of the lessons learned from the recent visit to the waste treatment centre located on the border of Romainville and Bobigny, the subject of a major transformation project whose timetable is becoming clearer.
Syctom, a joint union for the treatment of household waste, organized this Saturday an open day to detail the contours of the future sorting center. The site treats residual household waste (OMR) from 22 municipalities of Seine-Saint-Denis, the nineteenth arrondissement and part of the twentieth arrondissement of Paris, as well as the product of selective collection of 12 municipalities of 93, two of 94 and all of eastern Paris. This represents respectively 300,000 tonnes of OMR and 57,000 tonnes of recyclable waste.
Several challenges await Syctom and communities in the coming years, including reducing the share of OMRs in favor of recyclable waste and collecting and treating food waste, which has just begun in Romainville.
In the future, "the cable-stayed building will be extended and, underneath, the food waste transfer activity will take place," explains Pierre Hirtzberger, Syctom's general manager of technical services, who is leading the visit. The other "functionality that will be added" will be that of reuse, with the creation of a "pole of excellence of the circular economy". The waste disposal part will be located on the territory of Romainville and the pole of excellence on the Bobigny side. "We want to make it a living place," says Yvon Lejeune, municipal councillor of Romainville, who discovers the progress of the file.
"A project between land and water"
"The idea is to have an educational space open to school audiences," confirms Alexandre Franc, associate architect at Groupe 6 Architectes, who won the operation. There will be bird's eye views of the workshops, to understand recycling, to understand the whole chain. He evokes "a project between land and water" with the port on the Canal de l'Ourcq, essential to "decarbonize transport".
The first stage will aim to transport 120,000 tonnes of OMR to the port of Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine). "Eventually, we hope that everything will go by water," explains Pierre Hirtzberger. It does not depend on here but on the capacity to welcome elsewhere. Our three incinerators are located near the Seine but there is not yet necessarily a port, not necessarily a road. »
Romainville, this Saturday. Some 57,000 tonnes of recyclable waste are treated each year in Syctom's sorting centre. LP/E.M.
Recyclable waste should also circulate by water. "Depending on the materials, there will be groupings of containers on the port of Gennevilliers (Editor's note: there also in the Hauts-de-Seine) then it will leave, depending on our contracts with recyclers," says the Director General of Technical Services of Syctom, who recalls the objective: to go from the annual treatment of 57,000 tons of recyclable waste to 63,000 tons.
Building permits for the entire project must be filed in the fall. This will be followed in early 2024 by a public inquiry period. A previous project a few years ago aroused strong opposition: it provided for the construction of an urban boiler room, which its detractors likened to "an incinerator in disguise". This new project, worth €170 million, will therefore in turn have to go through the popular consultation phase.
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