“The Garbage Collectors’ Strike Reveals the Urgent Need to Address the Scale of Waste Generation”

On the sidewalks of Paris and other big cities, the accumulation of garbage cans, linked to the garbage collectors’ strike, forces us to consider a reality: the impressive quantity of household waste that we produce daily. Deputy Director in the Circular Economy and Waste Unit at the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe), Raphaël Guastavi analyzes the relationship that the French have with their trash cans and the measures put in place to reduce their overflow.