For “Prohibited Zone”, Paul Labrosse reveals the illegal practices of certain actors in the sector. An edifying documentary.
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In 2008, the European Union had set itself the goal of recycling half of household waste on the horizon 2020 – it recycled 36%. At the edge of the deadline, if progress is net at the level of the European Union, with 46.4% household waste recycling (numbers of 2015), at the national level, France is in the middle of the table with 42 9%, halfway from 67.6% of Germany and 6.4% Malta.
Bottle (plastic) half empty or half full? Journalist Paul Labrosse investigated for “prohibited zone” with the actors of the sector. It reports an edifying documentary, which reveals fraudulent practices at all levels. Starting with this garbager of the e district of Paris which, with his colleagues, charge indifferently green bins and yellow in the same bucket, while ensuring the journalist who addresses him that the yellow trash can He holds with one hand … is not yellow! Not surprisingly, a union representative ensures that it is an almost imposed practice to limit the costs of pick-up companies, such as Dericheburg – contacted, it will not judge it useful.
At the Paris town hall, where the investigation continues, Colombe Brossel, an assistant in charge of cleanliness, speaks of rupture of the “moral contract” with his provider. In front of his screen, the citizen Lambda, embodied in the report by two young Parisians, is disgusted. It’s just a start.
Lack of profitability
Direction The Rhôd Jas Discharge (Bouches-du-Rhône), managed by the company SUEZ, north of Marseille, where recyclable materials (cartons, wood, plastics …) and dangerous products (tires, gas , bumpers) are present. What is forbidden.
a lorient, which houses an important household packaging treatment center (from the yellow trash), Julien, ex-executive executive of a private sorting center, anonymously book and in a few words the essentials: the lack Profitability of the sector pushes to send directly to burning or incineration two or three out of ten trucks, in order to clear a minimum of margin. Two reports will corroborate his words. Consequence: in France, on average 70% of plastics would never be recycled.
But everything is not negative, ensures the comment, since globally, in the hexagon, “we recycle 20% more than ten years ago”. The affirmation opens a welcome positive parenthesis, on the original recycling of cigarette cigarette or plastic caps.
Before plunging into the detritus. In Sillingy (Haute-Savoie) where four pavilions, built on a discharge, threaten to collapse; In Mareil-en-France (Val-d’Oise), where the mayor, Chantal Roman, does not want to lower his arms against the hill of garbage appeared in eight months because of the wild deposits. Using GPS tags, Paul Labrosse will track five drivers who propose to evacuate rubble. And reveal the ins and outs of a fruitful traffic.
From Toulouse, it’s another traffic that will be uncovered, that of refrigerators, which it is much more profitable to compact and send abroad for their scrap than to depollure.
Let’s bet that, at the time of going out his bins, yellow and green, the viewer, which pays between 50 and 200 euros per year the recycling through his land tax, will not give way to discouragement.