Paris (AFP)
The CGT Energie voted in general meetings on Monday and Tuesday to shutdown from Thursday evening the three incineration plants in Ile-de-France, threatening to "saturate" the waste treatment chain of 6 million of Ile-de-France residents, the union and the managing body Syctom told AFP.
"We are starting the shutdown maneuvers for 6 out of 7 ovens in the three centers, the seventh being under maintenance, from Thursday 10 p.m. until Monday 10 p.m." said member of the board, AFP Julien Lambert of the Federation of Mines and Energy of the CGT.
The three centers in Ivry-sur-Seine, Issy-les-Moulineaux and Saint-Ouen process 6,000 tonnes of waste per day from green (non-recyclable) trash cans of Parisians and Ile-de-France residents.
"We have carried out many actions such as the reduction of treatment or steam intended for district heating since December 5 (start of the strike movement against the pension reform project) but very little is said about us", notes the trade unionist . "Here we go further with an innovative movement, the coordinated shutdown of the three factories in the same way".
The shutdown takes 6 to 10 hours, and the restart one to two days, or "6 days of garbage processing stop" explains Syctom.
Initially, the inter-municipal household waste treatment union for the Paris agglomeration plans to store the waste in the pits of the three factories and to evacuate some of it to other centers. Failing to recycle waste into energy (steam can heat 300,000 homes), it will be buried, "the worst solution in terms of the environment," says Syctom.
Ultimately, the sector may be "saturated", and the collection bins could stop taking the trash, warns the intermunicipal union. A catastrophic scenario suspended at the general meetings which will be held on Monday to decide whether or not to continue the movement.
The CGT Energie is very involved in the movement against pension reform, with power cuts or, conversely, recovery in homes where the power had been cut, blocking of gas sites and the technical minimization of terminals LNG carriers from Fos and Montoire, filtering of nuclear power plants, etc.
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