Our project is an environmental policy, with a focus on recycling. The idea is to sophisticate the process of trash sorting (plastic, paper, glass, metal, other). The families in the 20th arrondissement in Paris will be distributed trash bags, each with a personal barcode, which will allow us to know who mis-sorted the trash. The policy also includes incentives and a program of informing the inhabitants.
Our project is an environmental policy, with a focus on recycling. The idea is to sophisticate the process of trash sorting (plastic, paper, glass, metal, other). The families in the 20th arrondissement in Paris will be distributed trash bags, each with a personal barcode, which will allow us to know who mis-sorted the trash. The policy also includes incentives and a program of informing the inhabitants.
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One-third of food intended for human consumption is wasted worldwide. Every year, France wastes nearly 10 million tonnes of food, which corresponds to 317 kilograms wasted per second. From these 10 million tonnes of wasted food, more than 1.2 million can still be consumed, a figure that approximately 20 kilograms per capita and per year. Restaurants are responsible for 14% of food waste in France (2016).
The causes of food waste are numerous and linked in particular to the loss of monetary and symbolic value of food compared to other expenses and activities, the evolution of society and family organization, new ways of living. fuel, change of pace of life … And the consequences are heavy on the environmental, economic or social level.
The reduction of waste has become an international and collective issue, which comes in three aspects. Firstly, the environmental aspect, because on a global scale, food waste emits as much greenhouse gas emissions as a country whose activity level would be in 3rd position just after that of China and the USA because food requires the energy needed to produce, package, transport products. It is also a waste of natural resources, including water.
The waste of food is inevitably a waste of money and it is expensive: between 12 and 20 billion euros per year in France, which is the equivalent of 159 euros per person for households alone. Ethically and socially, the waste of food is a growing problem in a current social context where it is estimated that one in ten people in France are struggling to feed themselves.
It is therefore a question of meeting a collective challenge which has two objectives: to manage waste and to avoid waste. This goal will be achieved through the implementation of a public policy.
To find a coherent policy, we first analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of implementing a potential public policy on waste and waste management in order to have the most effective policy possible.
Concerning the location of the project’s implementation, we decided to experiment it in Paris. We choose a specific district in Paris : the 20ème arrondissement. The benfit of choosing it is that it’s a small district (5.98 km2) and possesses a good number of inhabitants (198 042 inhabitants). As the population brings together several socio-economic profiles, it allows us to analyse the repercussions of politics from various angles.
Just after waste reduction and prevention, waste sorting at the source is a very important step in guiding them in an appropriate sector, in a circular economy approach. However, it requires adequate storage space, adapted sorting centers, and above all awareness and investment of the population.As a producer of waste, the household must comply with the instructions given to them by the community in charge of collecting household waste from their municipality of residence (public waste management service). Most of these communities distribute sorting guides for their residents’ use. The sorting instructions can vary locally, the will of all the actors involved is to converge them by 2025 so that the sorting of waste is easier.The sorting of daily waste concerns in particular packaging and paper, but also and more and more bio-waste (kitchen waste, leftover food and garden waste). We will focus on packaging and paper. Concerning plastic packaging, the goal is to extend to all households the possibility of sorting for recycling all plastic packaging (including pots, trays, blisters) whereas previously only bottles and flasks (containers with flasks) had to be sorted.
In the context of developments of Le Grand Paris, the north-east metropolitan quarter is set to undergo profound changes, which will shape the territory for several decades, and must be taken into account: increasing urbanization, demographic growth, economic attractiveness, projects of amenities, etc. For the time being, there is no capacity for treating garbage in this territory, as many tons of residual garbage in this area are still buried. It will therefore be necessary to provide an answer to the territories’ need for waste treatment.