The sorting method will change throughout Greater Belfort from January 1st. The agglomeration community will comply with one of the objectives of the Grenelle 1 law of 2009: to achieve 75% recycling of household packaging.
And for this, the sorting rules will be simplified. All household packaging, without exception, must be thrown in the yellow bins. As for plastic, today only bottles and flasks are collected. In January, you can also put pots of yoghurt, tubes of toothpaste, plastic bags, food trays or even the small polystyrene boxes of household appliances. And there won’t be any need to clean those wrappers. All you have to do is empty them.
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Greater Belfort
“When the goals were setexplains Jacques Bonin, vice-president of Greater Belfort in charge of waste management policy, there was 20% of plastic waste that we did not know how to treat, such as yoghurt pots for example. Today, the technique has evolved, industrial solutions exist to recycle this waste. And this will allow an ecological and economic gain: on the one hand we will no longer have to incinerate them and on the other hand we will avoid errors. Today many non-recyclable plastic waste ends up in the yellow bin. They are transported to the sorting center and must then be sent back.”
But be careful not to anticipate. The Greater Belfort sorting centers will only be not ready before January 1. Until then, we will therefore have to continue to put the yogurt pots in the brown bins.
To inform the inhabitants of Greater Belfort, the urban community has launched a large communication campaign which she will continue until next spring. The team of sorting ambassadors will also be strengthened. She will be responsible for changing the labels stuck on the yellow bins that indicate what can be thrown away. Some individual bins will also be replaced by larger models.
Currently, Greater Belfort collects a total of 56,000 tonnes of waste per year, i.e. on average 534 kilos of waste per inhabitant including 214 which are thrown into the brown bins.