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MPM: sorted waste ends up at the landfill
35 contributions Posted on Wednesday November 25, 2009 at 14:15 p.m.
In Marignane as in Marseille, for several weeks, waste sorted by individuals has been brought directly to the landfill.
For the past month, Silim Environnement has been sending waste from selective sorting to landfills. On order of MPM, assures the company.
Photo Philippe Larue
"We provide selective collection and we follow the instructions of Marseille Provence Métropole. If we sent this specific waste to landfill, it is because MPM asked us to do so." This is how a manager of Silim Environnement justified himself this morning, after the denunciation of a "breakdown" of selective sorting in the Marignane sector which is allocated to them. In other words, citizens struggle to separate glass and packaging so that they are finally reunited and mixed with other waste! Information that MPM has neither confirmed nor denied.
And this concerns at least 13 trucks "diverted" by Silim Environnement (a subsidiary of the Société des eaux de Marseille) in eight municipalities: Marignane, Saint-Victoret, Châteauneuf-les-Martigues, La Mède, Ensuès-la-Redonne, Gignac, Sausset and Carry-le-Rouet. The alert was given by the Eco networkforum, which denounced the sending to the landfill of Entressen of Marseille Provence Métropole waste intended for selective sorting centers.
This was confirmed to us this morning by an employee of Silim Environnement: "for a month, we have been touring the Marignane sector but we are asked to take this waste to Ensuès, mixed with the others, instead of forwarding it to the center de sort de Palun ", also managed by Silim Environment, which had not been operating since the strike by Bronzo employees in Marseille a month ago ... and which resumed its activity this morning.
The same incredible situation in Marseille, as confirmed by the UMP assistant to the mayor of Marseille in charge of cleanliness, Martine Vassal. According to her, for a month, Sita (subsidiary of Suez) has been receiving selective collection carried out by Derichebourg in the terminals of voluntary collection point (the huge containers installed on the sidewalk which receive paper, glass, plastic ... ) without being able to process this waste ... lack of an adequate center. This did not prevent it from receiving the award notice for this contract, thanks to an offer less than 5 million euros than that proposed by the Bronzo-Queyras group.
In a press release, the company explains: "Sita is still awaiting notification of this market and it is only after this stage that Sita could be responsible for this service". Administrative delays would therefore explain this "hesitation". This is also the version also advanced by MPM, which ensures that this "problem of junction between two markets" should be resolved within 2 to 3 weeks. "The administrative delay of a few days is nothing exceptional or
abnormal, taking into account the importance, the technical complexity and the duration of the procedure for this type of contracts, specifies the urban community. For glass and paper, sorting has never been interrupted. For other recyclable waste, provisional storage measures have been taken, pending the resumption of activity by the company
awarded the contract. "
That being said, Sita recognizes that "all the packaging to be sorted will be transported temporarily to Vedène and Narbonne during the first six months of the contract, pending the construction of a high-tech sorting unit at the gates of MPM. . "
"The award commission is sovereign, insists the elected UMP, but I note that this call for tenders was passed in June, withdrawn, ironed ... And that today we realize that there This is unacceptable. It is still a management problem which taints the shared governance. We discover this through the media and no one gives us information. It is the total blackout at MPM ... "
Last June, the six elected officials who make up the tenders committee (three from the left, three from the right) unanimously chose Sita's proposal, while MPM's technical services pushed the Bronzo-Queyras duo. This allocation having been canceled for a legal reason, the contract was re-examined this fall. This time, the technical services had rallied to the Sita proposal, which was again chosen by the elected officials so that the Suez branch took over from Queyras, which had accomplished this task until then.
This is not the first time that such failures have been pointed out. In a 2007 report from the Court of Auditors, it is mentioned that "the urban community has indeed specified that the waste collected in the 15th and 16th arrondissements was not recycled, but was sent directly to a transfer center, to end up in landfill. (...) The companies were therefore compensated for collecting recycled waste in addition to traditional collection, to finally send part of this waste to landfill. " Likewise, the SDU-FSU 13 recalled a while ago that when selective collection started in Marseille, "everything went for six months in the normal bins, everything was so disorganized ...".
Victor Hugo Espinoza, president of Ecoforum and also elected to MPM, reminds that "" we pay 1000 € per year per tonne for selective collection and that we actually have a classic collection which should cost 280 € per year per tonne ".
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