This Monday morning, rue des Canettes, near the Saint-Sulpice church, the garbage cans overflowed but had to be picked up during the day. - G. Novello

  • For the past ten days, the Ile-de-France waste incineration sites have been blocked to oppose the pension reform.
  • Last Friday, a prefectural order made it possible to ensure a minimum service and to treat waste by burial.
  • In Paris, due to this new logistics, a delay has accumulated this weekend and the garbage cans are overflowing.

A new sector where Paris is doing better than Marseille! And this time it is the accumulation of waste on the streets. A performance enabled by the blocking since January 23 of the three waste incineration sites in Ile-de-France. General assemblies of strikers voted on Monday to continue the movement until January 7 to protest against the pension reform.

As a reminder, the three sites of Saint-Ouen, Isséane-Issy-Les-Moulineaux and Ivry-sur-Seine burn 6,000 tonnes of waste per day and supply heat to the Parisian district heating company (CPCU) to heat Parisian housing, official buildings or the AP-HP. Since January 23, six of the seven ovens have been turned off and only one of the Saint-Ouen ovens has been idling. The waste therefore accumulated on the sites until the prefecture took a requisition order last Friday to avoid burial by garbage.

"A very worrying ecological situation"

Since then, "we don't use our factories as a processing center but as a transit center," explains a spokesperson for Syctom, a public body that treats the waste of 6 million Ile-de-France residents. We welcome the skips before transferring the waste by truck to private landfill centers. "Basically, 5,000 tonnes of garbage are buried every day since the blockage," a very worrying ecological situation, absolutely unacceptable ", denounces Paul Simondon, deputy in charge of cleanliness at the city of Paris.

⚠️🚛🗑 After a closure linked to the mobilizations against the pension reform, the Syctom sites are now partially accessible for emptying the dumpsters that collect garbage from Paris and 84 other municipalities. 1/5

- Paul Simondon (@PaulSimondon) February 2, 2020

Another problem is that transferring waste from the dumpsters to the trucks takes longer than emptying it into the pits. Consequence of what, in Paris, "during the weekend, we were able to collect 2/3 of what we usually collect," notes the elected Parisian. This Monday, the emptying capacity increased a little, which allowed us to evacuate the usual amount of waste for a Monday but not yet to make up for the delay. "

The municipality therefore asks the state to "take responsibility". "It is absolutely necessary, it is a health issue, that Ile-de-France recover waste treatment capacities which are operating at full capacity so that we can make up for the delay," alarmed Paul Simondon. In addition, Syctom figures "the additional cost at 700,000 euros per day, which will necessarily be paid by the taxpayer", not to mention that the CPCU must use fossil fuels to heat the buildings.

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