The stage is located in L’Ariane. More precisely, between the Lino-Ventura theater and the Anatole-France bridge. When you lean over the railing and look down towards the river banks you can see the garbage for several feet.
“Here we find everything. There are crazy things, furniture, appliances, car parts”, smiles a local resident. In addition to this list of construction and newspaper waste.
“Incivility”
Shaïna, 22, lives in the next building. “This situation has been going on for years”, she breathes. Sensitive to environmental issues, he notes, “It’s probably the people who live here who throw away the Paillon. But we have a problem because the garbage cans are overflowing before the garbage collectors come by.” Fatima Khaldi-Bououghroum, deputy mayor of Nice, delegate for the Rives du Paillon area confirms that this unloading is the result of “the incivility of a few individuals”.
A complicated cleaning
The politician and the resident both evoke a vicious circle: if the rubbish is already there, other passers-by will join it.
“We are a bit abandoned, sorry Shaina. And if we let people down, they’ll let them down.” Fatima Khaldi-Bououghroum says that several cleanings have already been carried out but that they are complicated to implement. «On the banks of the river you need specific machinery. It’s not an easy job. And then at the Paillon there are several people: the State, the Smiage [Syndicat mixte pour les inondations, l’aménagement et la gestion de l’eau]the metropolis… We have to coordinate all of this.”
The city says yes “collected all the wild dumps over a mile in the Lino-Ventura theater area” more than “Residents continued to throw out their trash cans during this cleanup.”
A recycling center for bulky items
There are solutions to this waste problem. “Prevention in schools and public awareness”they are the exit doors to this situation according to the deputy mayor.
A separate collection center will also be created, a place where residents can bring their bulky objects to give them a second life.
“I’d rather it was clean downstairs, earth is not a garbage can”concludes Shaina.
