the wild dumping scandal

An industrial wasteland transformed into an ocean of garbage. The scene can be seen in Courtry, in Seine-et-Marne, right next to a protected natural area. “We see the remains of building demolition, tires. We don’t know what will become of it later.”, worries Didier Delpeyrou, member of the environmentalist brigade. The wild landfill was created between summer 2019 and spring 2020. A collective of citizens was formed. They search the rubble to find the culprits and constitute evidence to investigate a complaint to the prosecutor. The town hall and the urban community have closed all the entrances to the landfill, where the waste rots. The situation worries conservationists. The agglomeration community has not set any specific date for the clearance. According to her, there would be 8,500 tonnes of waste, and the operation would exceed one million euros.

In Vaujours, in Seine-Saint-Denis, an invisible landfill is of interest to environmentalists. On a plot belonging in part to the municipality, trucks are said to have buried waste. A judicial investigation was opened for this field and for another, located a few meters from homes. The mayor (LR) of the town, Dominique Bailly, says he was not aware of these truck ballets. In this case, several indictments were pronounced. One of them concerns the former director of municipal services in Vaujours. In 2020 in France, more than a million tonnes of wild waste ended up in nature.