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In Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), a site rubble recycling platform will be set up a few meters from homes. Residents are worried about noise pollution and a possible impact on their health.
Residents of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) thought they saw a green park bloom under their windows. But instead, they will have a bird’s eye view of a site rubble recycling centre. “We fell from the clouds in April. We had a flyer in the mailbox”, laments a local resident. A 3-hectare center for treating rubble is set up just 50 m from his building. The project has been under consideration for 10 years, but has never been mentioned according to her. The nurse works at night and dreads the noise of the machines.
A health risk?
This fear is shared by many local residents, grouped together. Vivien Danielo, a pulmonologist, is one of them. He is worried about possible contamination of the air for the inhabitants. “What we are afraid of is that industrial activities […] cause a dissemination of these particles”he says.
For its part, the company, mandated by the Nantes town hall, recognizes late communication, but defends a strictly supervised virtuous recycling project. “We are going to place sensors on the periphery of the platform which will control the quality of the air”, assures Virginie Vial, the general manager of the development company of the West Atlantic metropolis. The collective is studying appeals to move the project.