If I used to say that the best waste is the one that is not produced, the treatment and valuation of those collected throughout the territory present, in my eyes, major economic and environmental issues.
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This is why, alerted by an association of residents, I went to as Member of Parliament and Secretary of the Committee for Sustainable Development and Regional Planning of the National Assembly, on the platform E’Caux Pole of SMITVAD (Mixed waste treatment and recovery union) from the Pays de Caux to Brametot.
There, with the mayor Jean-François Aligny and under the leadership of the president of SMITVAD Fabrice Dubus, as well as Loïc Samson, operations manager for Veolia, I was able to follow the waste treatment cycle in a site implementing a process combining anaerobic digestion, and therefore energy production, and composting.
Thanks to this process, the 36,000 tonnes of waste deposited annually on this platform – designed to 40,000 tons – provide 15,000 tonnes of organic fertilizer used in agriculture and 1.3 million cubic meters of biogas.
But not all waste can follow this recovery process.
In the quantities supplied, more than half must be directed towards the landfill site, source of potential nuisances, even risks for the environment and water.
It is obviously there, in the reduction of this part of waste which one does not know how to do anything else today, that the greatest margins of progress.
That is why, as a continuation of my fight to save the Chapelle-Darblay stationery of Grand-Couronne who produced 250,000 tonnes of recycled paper per year, I campaign for creation of an industrial tool and the development of recycling channels.
My visit to the Brametot center is part of this dynamic.
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