To achieve the recycling objectives and decrease in plastic bottles, the Secretary of State for Ecology, Bérangère Couillard, wants a decision to be made in June on the implementation of a instructions system .
by Rémi Barroux
The deadline appeared in the antigaspillage law for a circular economy (AGEC), of February 10, 2020: in June 2023, a decision must be made on the deployment of the set of plastic bottles. There are therefore only a few months to the executive to decide on this device which had raised numerous oppositions during the examination of this law.
At the time, Elisabeth Borne, then Minister of Ecological and Solidarity Transition, had even had to go up to the niche to defend such a system, carried by his Secretary of State, Brune Poirson. The Senate had indeed deleted the instructions of the text from the Agec law.
Today, explains Bérangère Couillard, the Secretary of State in charge of ecology with the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Cohesion of the Territories, it is not a question of reintroducing this device at all costs. “I do not come with the idea of setting up the instructions, this is the question of the management of waste that is posed,” she told some sixty participants-professionals, institutional, elected officials, elected officials, elected officials, elected officials Associations… – At the first consultation meeting on this issue of the set of plastic bottles, Monday, January 30, at the ministry, in Paris.
And there is an emergency. France is late on its objectives: the collection rate for recycling of plastic bottles was 61 % in 2021, while the target is 77 % in 2025 and 90 % in 2029. For cardboard bricks, It is 57 % for an 85 % target in 2030, when steel and aluminum cans reach 50 % instead of 90 %. Only the score of glass bottles is honorable, with 79 % recycling.
In addition to the instructions for plastic bottles, other solutions, also at the heart of consultation, exist to achieve objectives, including the enlargement of sorting instructions with the widespread implantation of yellow bins which allow us to recover the All of the packaging, or even incentive pricing, which consists in charging users according to the quantities of waste they produce.
opposition from local authorities
Three years after the vote of the Agec law, the positions have varied little. Local communities, by the voice of urban or inter -municipal France in France, remain mainly opposed to the instructions. For Nicolas Garnier, general delegate of start , an association bringing together communities and companies on waste and energy issues, “most players, including representatives of local authorities, expressed the fact that the real challenge of France was not to reach 90 % of Collection for recycling of plastic bottles, which represent less than 1 % of the French trash can, defended and obtained in Brussels by the directors on the mineral waters and drinks to rehabilitate and perpetuate the disposable bottle, but to have Finally an effective policy of reduction and recycling on all household waste “.
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