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The
inhabitants of La Métro have a choice of three bins for their
refuse :
- Green
bin : paper, cardboard, plastic, metal, etc.
- Grey
bin : biodegradable and combustible matter, etc.
- Container
for glass.
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Refuse
in the green bin (paper, cardboard, plastic and metal) is
recycled into paper pulp, paperboard pulp, plastic bottles,
textile fibres, plastic tubes, metal boxes, trays, aerosols,
and steel and aluminium objects.
Refuse
in the grey bin (biodegradable and combustible matter) is
recycled into compost for use in agriculture, by horticultural
establishments and nurseries, or incinerated, generating heat
energy to provide urban heating during the winter, heat energy
to provide hot water, and in the generation of electricity
for the Athanor plant.
Glass
collected in the glass container is reintroduced into the
glassmaking industry.
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Sorting
at source and selective collection of pre-separated refuse
are part of a scheme based on a high-tech recycling facility
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- Athanor
is a state-of-the-art refuse processing plant capable of
recycling waste into products for industry (paper, cardboard,
plastics, metals), preparing biodegradable matter for the
Murianette composting centre, and incinerating other refuse
to generate energy used for urban heating
- 600
glass collection skips situated throughout the urban agglomeration
- 18
waste disposal centres for the other refuse
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20
dynamic representatives on the youth employment
scheme who criss-cross the urban agglomeration
persuading the population of the importance of
sorting refuse. Grey bin, green bin, special glass
container, it can all get a bit confusing! Recognisable
by their bright yellow jackets, they listen to,
educate, inform and convince the general public.
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In addition
to educating and informing the population, the sorting ambassadors
also have to check the content of the green bins. Three teams
cover the urban agglomeration on the lookout for defective
green bins, in other words those with too high a content in
undesirable matter (refuse which should be in the grey bin
or be taken to the waste disposal centre), or those of insufficient
quality.
When
a quality or quantity problem is detected, the two other teams
come into play. The teams' role is not a repressive one but
one of educating and informing people on the necessity of
sorting household refuse.
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