Ecological, sustainable, greener than green and allowing the establishment of selective sorting in the difficult to access alleys of the old town of Le Mans (Sarthe), the municipal waste collection project using carts pulled by Percherons had everything to please and win a very large membership. Except for a handful of anti-species activists who, through the voice of Anissa Putois, communications officer for the French branch of the American vegan association PETA, saw in this initiative only
"abuse"
and
" going back ”
, while assuring that
“ the use of machines to replace animal traction would be preferable ”
.
And too bad if the use of a horse makes it possible to reduce the carbon footprint by 35% compared to a thermal engine vehicle, does not generate any fine particles, very little greenhouse gas and that the recovery of the dung, recycled into organic fertilizer, is a godsend for local farmers.
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