• Journalist Hugo Clément alerted to a housing construction site established on a mountain of waste, the site being a former dump.

  • The mayor of the town of Anglet where the project is located interrupted the construction site pending the evacuation of the waste.

  • Eiffage, project manager, explains that sorting and disposal operations for this rubbish were already planned.

Eiffage says "understand the emotion aroused" by these videos, "which show the content of this particular site", but "filmed before the planned waste sorting and disposal operations".

The builder, in charge of building a hundred homes in Anglet on the site of a former landfill, was the target of a video by journalist Hugo Clément who filmed the surroundings of the site, strewn with waste.


In Anglet in the Basque Country, Eiffage is building buildings on a mountain of waste!



All right next to a stream… 🤯



The workers I spoke to are hallucinating.

They are covering the thousands of rubbish with earth.

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— Hugo Clement (@hugoclement) September 27, 2022

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The mayor of Anglet Claude Olive (LR) decided to interrupt the construction site on Wednesday, by making a report to the state services, pending the evacuation of a large quantity of waste visible in the embankment used.

“There will be no resumption of the site until this waste has been evacuated, as it was agreed to do from the start.

Their job today is to clean up the area,” said the town hall of Anglet on Thursday.

Screening operations announced

The project, baptized “Erreka”, (the stream in the Basque language), is a project of Carrefour Property, the Carrefour group's real estate subsidiary and contracting authority, with Eiffage as project manager.

Carrefour Property ensures that sifting operations, "to extract the most important household waste", have been carried out since the opening of the site and that the excavated materials visible in the images have been "by earth movements recent”.

However, the company undertakes to sort the land concerned and to evacuate the waste to appropriate landfills.

It also guarantees that the feasibility studies, diagnoses and studies carried out upstream "have made it possible to confirm the absence of health risk" and "to initiate treatment on site".

"The obligation to preserve agricultural or natural land to meet housing needs leads, and will increasingly lead, to the reuse, in compliance with regulations, of sites already transformed and artificialized by human activity, as in the present case. “, also underlines Eiffage.

The stream at the edge of the plot will be protected by "additional precautionary measures" such as the installation of a fence to prevent the fall of rubbish, adds the client.


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