Question 17780 — waste

Summary

Mr. Jonathan Gery draws the attention of the Minister of Ecological Transition, Biodiversity and International Negotiations on Climate and Nature to the project to set up a deposit for recycling plastic bottles and cans and to the significant concerns it raises among local authorities responsible for the public waste management service. While communities have achieved these significant investments in recent years to modernize their equipment, adapt their sorting centers and support the generalization of the simplification of the sorting process, this system would amount to removing plastic bottles and cans from the current selective collection flow in order to create a specific collection circuit. Communities and their unions are warning in particular of the financial consequences of such reform. This could lead to a significant reduction in support paid by eco-organizations as well as a loss of revenue linked to the recovery and sale of recyclable materials. SYTRAIVAL, a public union which works with 260 municipalities representing more than 375,000 inhabitants, spread over several departments, notably Rhône, Ain and Saône-et-Loire, therefore considers that the implementation of this instruction could result for its territory in a loss of nearly 3.4 million euros per year in support paid by Citeo, an approved eco-organization responsible in particular for the household packaging sector, to which would be added a reduction estimated between 300,000 and 400,000 euros per year in revenue linked to the sale of materials. Nationally, the loss of support and revenue for communities is estimated between 400 and 500 million euros. In the absence of full compensation, these losses would likely be borne by communities and, ultimately, by taxpayers and users of public services. Beyond its cost, local elected officials are questioning the environmental relevance of the system. The recycling deposit does not constitute a reuse deposit: the bottle remains single-use packaging which becomes waste after its consumption. The device therefore does not, in itself, reduce plastic production. It would also complicate a recently simplified sorting process and now known to residents, by forcing them to distinguish plastic bottles and cans from other packaging placed in the sorting bin. Communities consider that the priority must instead be on reducing packaging at source disposable products, the development of reuse, the improvement of existing collection and increased accountability of those putting them on the market. Faced with the financial, environmental and organizational consequences of this system and the opposition expressed by numerous local authorities and associations of elected officials, he wishes to know whether the Government intends to abandon the implementation of the deposit for recycling bottles. plastics and cans and abandon this project. He also asks him if he intends to favor, in consultation with local authorities, measures enabling the European collection and recycling objectives to be achieved without weakening the local public waste management service, in particular by reducing plastic production at source, developing reuse, improving the performance of selective collection and strengthening the financial responsibility of packaging producers.

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