Unpack the packaging! NATHALIE FONTREL - YESTERDAY, 05:10
Hypermarkets do not respect one of the flagship articles of the Grenelle law: allowing consumers to leave the packaging of products in the store.
"Any establishment of more than 2.500 square meters has a packaging collection point at the checkout". This has been the law since July XNUMXst.
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These unpacking platforms offer consumers the possibility of leaving unnecessary packaging on site. This makes it possible to lighten the weight of citizens' trash cans, to avoid them paying twice for packaging: once when purchasing the product, the second by paying the household waste removal tax.
And finally to encourage producers and distributors to be more sober, to chase overpacks.
But the hypermarkets didn't really follow the law. Asked by the independent waste information center, CNIID, none of the major groups replied "yes, yes we will do it". While asserting that the unboxing platforms were expensive, and did not provide a very efficient service to consumers. The Minister of Ecology recognized in July that the "crisis effect" had gone through this. And as always, it relegates ecology to the background. She is considering sanctions. But first wants to convince.
For CNIID, the disrespect of the law proves that the discourse of distributors on sustainable development is not convincing.
But after all, the French too are far from being convinced: only 31% are interested in the environmental impact of packaging according to a survey by the French Institute of Public Opinion. 60% first want packaging to be practical before being ecological.
Each year, nearly 5 million tonnes of packaging are placed on the market. Not all of them are recycled far from it. And they fill the trash that goes to landfill or incinerator. And it costs you more and more: with the generalization of the incentive fee, everything that is not recycled is billed according to the weight or the frequency at which you take out your trash.
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