INTERVIEW
Single drug, removal of plastic straws ... the anti-waste bill arrives Monday in the National Assembly. Until the end of December, nearly 2,400 amendments will be studied. On Anne Roumanoff's Europe 1, Brune Poirson, the Secretary of State to the Minister for the Ecological and Solidarity Transition, defends the idea of a change of society. The ecological transition is "the most exciting project humanity has ever had," she says.
"Pushing companies to produce differently"
"When we talk about circular economy, we talk about system and it is the whole system that must be sensitized," says Brune Poirson. With the anti-waste bill, she wants to "push companies to produce differently". The secretary of state quotes as an example the "650 to 850 million products that have not found a buyer and are thrown away every year in France". "A real scandal," said Brune Poirson, who wants to ban this practice with the anti-waste law.
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"There are bound to be people who do not like it"
At the microphone of Europe 1, the Secretary of State does not hide that some lobbies have lobbied, in an attempt to remove measures of the law. "We must say that we are on the safe side, we change things and that there are inevitably people who do not like it", relativizes Brune Poirson, who says he is animated by an ideal "very realistic : a society where ecology is at the heart of the debate. "