Waste, a huge problem

Environmental impact of end of life products: plastics, chemicals, vehicles, agri-food marketing. direct recycling and recycling (upcycling or upcycling) and reuse of good items for the trash!
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by moinsdewatt » 19/03/21, 22:06

Still more household waste in French bins

AFP • 19 / 03 / 2021

In ten years, the total volume of household waste collected annually in France has continued to increase, even if each French individual has reduced their own production by an average of 2%, shows a report from the Ecological Transition Agency (Ademe). , published Friday.

In 2017, the total quantity of household and similar waste in France (including both household and neighborhood shops as well as the volumes collected in recycling centers, editor's note) increased to 37,6 million tonnes against 36,7 Mt in 2007 (+ 2,4%), indicates the Modecom report, published Friday by Ademe, the third survey of its kind in thirty years.

Individually, each French person has nevertheless reduced their own waste production by 2%, to 580 kilos per person per year in 2017, against 592 kilos in 2007, the report notes.

The difference is explained by the increase in the population, but also by the sharp increase (+ 32%) in waste collection, to 14,2 million tonnes in 2017 against 10,7 Mt in 2007.

The individual decrease can also be explained by the increase in the fight against food waste, as well as by the increase in crushing and composting in gardens, which have reduced the volumes of "green waste" in some cases, indicates to l 'AFP Marc Cheverry, Director of Circular Economy and Waste at ADEME, who coordinated the investigation.

Between green trash, yellow trash, glass collector, and recycling center, the report notes a very sharp drop in the volumes collected in green trash (all kinds of goods), and a slight increase in the volumes of yellow trash cans intended for recycling.

He also notes that sorting procedures could "be further improved".

"It is estimated that 80% of the content of green bins could be taken care of in recycling (yellow bin) or organic channels, adds Mr. Cheverry, admitting that very few communities still offer organic waste collection services or bio-waste (Besançon, Grenoble, La Rochelle, etc.) which will be compulsory from the start of 2024 according to the law of January 1, 2020 relating to the circular economy.


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by Exnihiloest » 19/03/21, 23:11

I like "The difference is explained by the increase in the population", when the title of the article is: "Always more household waste in the trash cans of the French."
If there is more waste in the bins, it does not depend on the number of French people : roll: . It is the total amount of waste or bins that depends on it.

And we learn that indeed: "each Frenchman has nevertheless reduced his own waste production by 2%". But which ones? Those put only in the trash, so why the title, or the whole, put in also in recycling center? Because we also learn "the strong increase (+ 32%) of the contributions in waste reception center". But what contributions? Are hedge trimmings waste? ... in this case all the leaves that fall from the trees in the fall are too, and that makes a lot.

And to think that an AFP guy was paid to write something so vague, where in the end we don't know more than before.
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by moinsdewatt » 29/03/21, 00:14

MY GARBAGE IS WORTH GOLD - C'est Pas Sorcier Video 26 mn


Visit of the incinerator of ST Ouen, its fumes, its refioms and machefer / ultimate class 1 discharges / recuperation of computers / sorting bins .......

Well, it's over 20 years old.
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by moinsdewatt » 16/05/21, 17:38

youtube video 9 minutes on the transport of waste in New York City, which generates 3.2 million tonnes of waste every year:

What Happens To NYC's 3.2 Million Tons Of Trash | Big Business

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New York City is one of the most wasteful cities in the world. But none of its trash is actually processed in NYC. It's sent to waste-to-energy facilities and landfills as far away as Ohio and South Carolina. It takes a vast network of sanitation workers, trucks, trains, cranes, and barges - and $ 429 million a year - to get it there.

A part is burned in an incinerator not too far away, but a good part goes as far as in Ohio and Pennsylvania!
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by moinsdewatt » 22/05/21, 15:43

Paprec will build the new Tours Métropole sorting plant

Stéphane Frachet May 21, 2021 New Factory

The Paprec group will mobilize 40 million euros to build a new sorting plant in the metropolis of Tours, in order to treat the recyclable waste of nearly one million inhabitants.

The French company Paprec will build its 32nd selective collection sorting center in Parçay-Meslay, north of the agglomeration of Tours (Indre-et-Loire) for an amount of 40 million euros. The plant, which will be equipped with screening machines, optical sorting, magnets and eddy current, will be operational at the end of 2023. Its processing capacity will be 53000 tonnes per year.

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by ENERC » 22/05/21, 19:41

Always more, always more .... No more trash, no more factories to treat them. More factories, more waste. Finally, when we treat waste.

We should ban this:
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I don't buy these packaging, but there are plenty of other products where there is an over-packaging whereas a simple paper or a welded film would be largely sufficient. It is not zero waste, but that would easily divide by 2 the volume and weight of the yellow bin and especially the brown one because most of this packaging is non-recyclable.
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by moinsdewatt » 31/08/21, 13:57

It's not too early: Kuwait is finally getting rid of the world's largest "tire graveyard"

Baptiste Lambert August 31, 2021

Kuwait has moved some 40 million tires for recycling or destruction. According to authorities, it was the largest tire cemetery in the world. The space left should allow the country to erect a new city.

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Crazy figures: 17 million tires have been accumulating for 40 years on an area of ​​2 million square meters, 35 km west of Kuwait City. For months, 44.000 truck trips have been necessary to clean the scene.

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“Today, the site is clean,” Oil Minister Mohammed Al-Fares told AFP. The trip brought these tires to a temporary site in Al-Sami, in the west of the country. There they will be cut or recycled for the local market. The authorities assure that international standards will be respected.

On the old site, the authorities planned to erect a new city, called Saad Al-Abdallah, in reference to the name of a former emir of Kuwait, in the middle of the desert. This landfill has been denounced many times by environmental groups, fires occurring there regularly, including two of very large magnitude, in 2012 and 2020. The most recent took place barely 4 weeks ago and did the front page of the news.


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by moinsdewatt » 11/12/21, 15:19

In 2020, a million tonnes of litter covered France

lefigaro.fr 09 dec 2021

This is a scourge on which the Covid-19 pandemic has had no effect. According to an estimate by the NGO Gestes proper, relayed by Le Parisien, the French abandoned a million tonnes of garbage in the territory in 2020. This is twice as much as in 2018, where the association, which works closely with the Ministry of Ecology, had identified 520.000 tons of litter, thrown on the public highway.

“By litter, we mean cigarette ends thrown out the window, cans thrown outside the trash cans, bulky items left on the sidewalk or the mattress left at the bottom of the building”, specifies to our colleagues Carole Carpentier, general delegate of clean gestures. And this phenomenon does not only concern the big cities, but also "the small villages, where it happens that public works companies empty their rubble at the edge of the field", testifies a garbage collector of the City of Paris.

A growing phenomenon on the side of the roads

If the Covid-19, and in particular the successive confinements and curfews, has "limited the proliferation of litter in certain areas, in particular tourist areas", it is the roadsides that are most affected by litter. According to Clean Gestures, 78.000 tons of garbage were found along the roads in 2020, against 10.000 in waterways, more than 660 tons along the coast and 450 tons on the ski slopes. “Even if the number of road traffic fell during confinement, the consumption of take-out meals increased sharply during these periods and their corollary litter,” regrets the NGO.

But what to do against these incivilities? According to two surveys conducted by Ifop in 2020 and 2021 for Clean Gestures, "27% of French people admit to having already abandoned a waste on the ground", advances Carole Carpentier. Three solutions are therefore popular in these polls: sanctions against throwers (54% of French people in favor), educational measures (23%) or the optimization of collection measures (25%).


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