Question 10531 — waste

Summary

Mr. Guillaume Florquin draws the attention of the Minister of Ecological Transition, Biodiversity and International Negotiations on Climate and Nature to the structural causes of the low recycling rate of plastic packaging in France. While France is the leading contributor to the European plastic tax, with a payment of 1.56 billion euros in 2023, it shows performance in terms of recycling of plastic packaging significantly lower than that of its European neighbors. According to professionals in the sector, this situation is not the result of a lack of investment or mobilization of French manufacturers, but rather of a persistent deficit in terms of sorting at source and collection, which are the responsibility of communities and public action. This observation raises a contradiction: rather than correcting these structural failures, the Government plans to shift the financial effort onto businesses, and therefore consumers, via a new tax, which risks harming the competitiveness of an entire sector without improving recycling performance. Thus, he asks whether the Government intends to initiate a plan to strengthen sorting and collection systems, accompanied by concrete results objectives, to put an end to this public failure which slows down the ambitions of the circular economy.

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