By Renaud Vilafranca
Published on 28 Jan 21 at 19:26
The waste collection new components at GPS & O (Yvelines), what do these first involved assume, specifically the inhabitants? Strongly criticized when it was arrange, this overhaul of the collection schedule would be the topic of a satisfaction survey by theUFC-What to choose Val de Seine. The affiliation of client protection will ship a questionnaire to its 450 members (most of them reside within the space involved, Poissy at Mantes la Jolie) to get their viewpoint.
The outcomes of the survey can be offered to elected officers of GPS & O
Frequency and effectivity of collections, collection of cumbersome gadgets, refusal of sorting… The solutions ought to fall inside six weeks. The UFC-Que Choisir then intend to current the outcomes to elected officers of the city group to receive “improvements”.
Because the affiliation is already expressing grievances on the topic. On the communication of the city group (CU) with elected officers and residents for instance: “If GPS & O (Grand-Paris Seine-et-Oise) had announced the changes much earlier, citizens could have ordered larger bins and start to change their consumption habits, to reduce their packaging ”, specifies a consultant of the affiliation, who didn’t need his identify to seem within the press.
The drop in frequency will inevitably lead, in accordance to the affiliation, to “waste thrown into the wrong bin and illegal dumps”. Our interlocutor additionally notes that recyclable bins now have a tendency to overflow into the streets of a number of municipalities.
No native tax hike hopes UFC
Other topics for the UFC: that there is no such thing as a enhance in taxes on rubbish elimination, that the collection of glass “at the door” be maintained and that the colours of the completely different containers (recyclable, family waste and many others…) be standardized throughout the agglomeration, “to avoid errors”.
Since 1er final January within the suburban areas of 72 of the 73 municipalities of GPS & O (Limay stays underneath municipal administration) the collection of family waste, recyclable waste and vegetation has been halved. As for cumbersome gadgets, they solely cross 3 times a 12 months. At the start of January, the CU had acknowledged a “miss” when it comes to communication, proposing the implementation of the brand new machine to present bigger containers to residents.
Just a few weeks in the past, Jean-Luc Gray, vice-president of GPS & O in command of waste, had justified this drastic decrease service by means of the sharp rise in state taxes on native authorities when it comes to waste.
