Confinement requires, I take this opportunity to talk a little about this project which should only materialize as soon as things improve ... I will be all the more attentive to comments and possible criticisms that nothing is still set in stone.
I summarize the general idea, without entering into the particular considerations which led me to it: the collection of green waste by the local communities and especially the transport costs a fortune (because of the low density of green waste, the truck transports especially ... air). The treatment of waste (crushing, composting) is taken care of free of charge by a company which is delivered at community expense, as already specified, which implies a work of concentration of waste, originally dispersed, towards a single place.
If we now consider things from a purely functional angle, the current solution goes through composting, a solution which benefits from a very positive image in public opinion, but which is however not so virtuous as that. Indeed, it is thermophilic bacteria which are responsible for the job and this with strong release of CO²: they work to reduce the organic matter in soil; I mean reduce, because the necessary energy being taken from the initial mass, there is a strong decrease in volume to ultimately obtain a residue, certainly usable, but of modest agronomic interest. In addition, this substrate will have to be dispersed again among user gardeners ...
The sector that I wish to set up proceeds in a radically different way and aims to recover waste as close as possible to users. The waste collection will be done at the level of the Municipality and the transformation will be limited to crushing: thus, the users will be able, according to their needs, to leave with crushed or not and those which would be applicants of crushed without having waste could also find their happiness, of course within the limits of the available flows (a professional user would be introduced into the circuit to smooth the flows).
I am aware that the success of such a project rests on the one hand on a firm will on the part of the municipality, a strong commitment of the staff (who will have to be trained properly and be there also valued) and on the other hand, on the implementation of a real pedagogy articulated around several axes on which I will come back later. This pedagogy which is the most important and the most delicate part to deploy will have to insist especially on the practical aspects and therefore the multiple applications in mulching, without forgetting certain additional possibilities (hot layers of spring, dry toilets, animal litter ...) .
From a theoretical point of view, which is dear to me, there is migration of a solution which externalizes both the transformation to the detriment of the actors of the ground and the control which is delegated to an external and invisible speaker, to go towards a local recovery of the whole process in a transparent and redirected way in favor of the functioning of the soil. This aspect must appear in filigree in the whole of the communication, even if it is likely to be more difficult to communicate at the beginning ... It is possible that this goes through an accent put on the difference in the evolution of carbon which , with this approach, is stored permanently in the ground: we know that the question of CO² leaves no one absolutely indifferent ... Water management with periods of summer drought would also be an interesting point of support, everything like weeds, as a credible alternative to chemical weedkillers, thus avoiding the need for manual weeding.
), things should evolve more easily.
