Question 17002 — waste

Summary

Mr. Dominique Potier alerts the Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, to the saturation of waste storage facilities in the Grand Est region and the threat of health and environmental disorders that results from this. This saturation situation seems to be partly the result of a reduction in administrative quotas in application of the law relating to the energy transition for green growth. THE quotas of waste authorized to be directed to storage facilities no longer make it possible today to find a treatment solution for the non-recyclable residual fraction irremediably produced after the waste recycling process. Faced with the accumulation of final waste on the sites of recycling companies, several recycling installations have already been shut down and will no longer be able to ensure the recovery of certain waste, such as end-of-life vehicles, scrap metal from recycling centers or waste electrical and electronic equipment. Storage capacities have been reached in the Grand Est region, resulting in waste dumped on public roads or in natural environments, an increase in fire risks due to the increase in quantities accumulated upstream, shutdowns recycling facilities which will no longer be able to sort household recyclable waste from selective collections or the recovery of materials from end-of-life vehicles, interruptions in collection at recycling centers. Without an outlet for this ultimate waste, recycling sectors will have to consider temporary shutdowns in the Grand Est region, with health, environmental and economic consequences (weakening of the regional economic chain, technical unemployment for many employees) significant. The lack of visibility regarding monthly volume commitments from storage facilities further complicates the situation for 2019. He points out the proposals he has made as part of the European proposal for a resolution relating to the life cycle of products and the saving of resources that he has presented in 2015 and asks him what measures are planned to deal with this crisis situation.

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