Articles

• Land planning across scales in the greater Paris area
  21 May 2024, by Philippe

  Keeping waste generation and waste treatment capacities in balance .
  Master-planning at regional and local scale is regularly revisited. National strategy guides regional waste targets. Syctom bridges the regional targets with local planning through “objectives contracts” adapted to each local context. Reducing waste volumes and meeting recycling targets requires integrating economic, social and transport planning.
  – Syctom’s Objective Contracts with its members

• Improving household waste management
  24 November 2023, by Philippe

  Towards a sustainable urban transition in Lomé.
  Holistic domestic waste management system in the Grand Lomé: 1.8 M people, 300,000 t/y of solid waste.
  An ongoing multi-tranch project since 2006: Improvement of the holistic solid waste management system and capacity building support. Implementation of engineered landfills with long term biogas and leachate management. Strengthening recovery & recycling initiatives. Improvement of the sector financial resources. Gradual increase of (…)