Twenty homes, six months of adventure.
And, in the end, we prefer to reassure you, there will not be just one left.
Since January, the Creil Sud Oise Agglomeration (Acso) has decided to put its bins on a dry diet.
A simple, basic objective: better sorting of waste.
Of the 88,000 residents living in the 11 municipalities of the conurbation, twenty families volunteered to “reduce their trash”.
Within the system in force since January, each volunteer has a specific bag, a trash scale and a notebook.
At the end of each week, the bin dedicated to household waste and the one dedicated to recycling are carefully weighed and the figures recorded.
Patricia, a 52-year-old nurse who is raising her 16-year-old daughter alone, has noted a stable volume of waste since the start of the experiment.
It generates approximately “3 kg of household waste and 1.7 kg of recyclable material” per week.
“When I weigh it all, I still have the feeling that it’s heavy.
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