The pictogram becomes mandatory this year. The deadline for compliance is Thursday, September 8 at midnight.
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Manufacturers will still be able to sell their stocks for six months, but the Triman, mandatory from September 8 at midnight, has gradually taken over since its creation in 2015. If you look at the packaging around you, you should normally find a stylized silhouette with three arrows next to it. This drawing is called the Triman, it means that the packaging responds to a very specific sorting instruction, instruction specified next to the pictogram.
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The objective is to simplify the gesture of sorting. Even if, every year, each French person already sorts an average of 54 kg of packaging and that in 2021, 72% of household packaging has been recycled according to Citeo figures, there is still progress to be made. The recycling rate is, for example, only 30% for plastic. In front of their trash can, “four out of five French people continue to have doubts about the right sorting gesture”explains Laure Castagnino, CSR manager at Citeo.
With the obligation to display the Triman logo, certain sorting or recycling pictograms will remain, as additional pictograms. This is the case of the crossed-out trash can, which means that the product must not be thrown away with household waste, or the triangle with a number inside, indicating the nature of the packaging material.
But other logos can mislead the consumer, like the circle with two green arrows. This design does not mean that the product is recyclable, but that the company that markets it contributes financially to the collection of its packaging. This logo has not been compulsory in France for five years and risks disappearing.