Question 7930 — waste

Summary

Ms. Martine Froger draws the attention of the Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion to the desire to put in place, as part of the national consultation launched by the Government on January 30, 2023, a deposit for recycling on plastic bottles. Community associations are firmly opposed to this system and consider that the consequences would be counterproductive, both environmental, economic and social points of view. Indeed, it would lead to more complex sorting habits for citizens, even though since January 1, 2023, the single sorting gesture for all plastic packaging has been generalized throughout France (extension of sorting instructions). There is also no doubt that the introduction of such a measure would threaten the financial balance of the public service of the waste management, while communities have made heavy investments to carry out the extension of the sorting process, in particular to adapt the sorting centers. It would thus represent a double penalty for taxpayers liable for the household waste collection tax, who would have to go to a supermarket or other collection point to recycle their plastic bottles. Counterproductive, this false The deposit would thus have no other consequence than making the sorting process more complex for citizens and indirectly encouraging the consumption of plastic bottles, which would go against the grain of history at a time when the G7 is finally setting its first ambitions to combat pollution. The only beneficiaries would be the producers for an estimated gain of several hundred million euros per year. The final decision before intervene in June 2023, she would like to ask him if he intends to rely on the reflections initiated collectively by the community associations directly impacted by this possible system because these carry alternative proposals which would make it possible to meet the objectives of collection and recycling of plastic bottles, while preserving the public waste management service and the gesture of sorting.

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