French Solid Waste Partnership

Rethinking plastics use

Philippe — 2025-10-31T13:46:24Z

To reduce both the plastics footprint and the impact of plastic waste on the environment.

Monitoring tools and innovative business models to drive change.

National inventory of plastic waste management and country level plastics footprint assessment
Study of economic, environmental and social factors in plastics consumption and management
Developing stakeholders buy-in on heightened producer responsibility and associated regulations
Involvement of plastic waste generating companies

https://www.ffem.fr/en/carte-des-projets/rethinking-use-plastics-and-waste-management-benefit-environment

Open-data on operations

Philippe — 2024-05-21T14:20:52Z

Building trust through public access to environmental and financial data.

Open-access to financial and environmental data on solid waste management activities ensures transparency.

Publishing data on the environmental impact of facilities is a regulatory requirement for all industrial installations.
By publishing data in open data format, the open access principle can be respected

– Open Data - Syctom

JEAI PADI - Plastics in Abidjan: Future and impacts

Philippe — 2024-05-21T14:05:47Z

Establishing scientific knowledge on plastics in aquatic environments.

Tracing back to the cause of macro- and micro- plastic pollution to support decision makers:

Research results on lagoon and coastal ecosystems affected by plastic pollution are shared with local stakeholders for their awareness
Results are translated into recommendations of operational decision

– https://www.ird.fr/jeai-padi-plastiques-dabidjan-devenirs-et-impacts

Energy Recovery at Toulouse

Philippe — 2024-05-21T11:02:21Z

Integrated planning across waste, energy and water sectors.

Tomato production for a competitive price thanks to an innovative concept.

Econotre, operated by SUEZ, uses the heat released by incineration of the waste to produce electricity.
Low-temperature energy is also recovered to supply heat to greenhouses.
The necessary proximity was made possible through integrated land planning.

– https://www.econotre.fr/

Open-burning & Air quality

Philippe — 2023-11-24T09:23:43Z

El Alto and La Paz – evaluation of airborne particle pollution sources.

This evaluation of airborne particle pollution sources in Bolivia show that:

Local air pollution in La Paz is mainly due to road traffic but additional sources such as waste burning may have non-negligeable impacts.
Waste burning contributes only 2 to 5% of total PM10 but contains more than 50% of the PAHs content which are carcinogenic components.

– https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/23/10325/2023/

A women-led informal waste collection system in Hà Nội

Philippe — 2023-11-24T09:19:20Z

Waste collection and recycling in a city overwhelmed by waste.

Main highlights of this comprehensive study :

20% of urban waste is collected informally, mainly by women.
The informal sector is complex and composed of street collectors, waste deposit managers and recyclers.
Recycling practices are highly polluting for the environment and health.

– https://www.ird.fr/collecter-et-recycler-les-dechets-ha-noi

WAGABOX® technology

Philippe — 2023-11-24T09:10:27Z

A benchmark solution for landfill gas purification for recovery.

Coupling membrane filtration and cryogenic distillation to upgrade landfill gas into grid compliant biomethane:

Improvement in energy yield compared with cogeneration.
Optimized methane capture as there is no limitation in air concentration in landfill gas.

Example: WAGABOX® in Claye-Souilly, France:

Capacity: 130 GWh/y.
21,000 eqCO₂ avoided/y.
20,000 households supplied with biomethane.

https://waga-energy.com/en/

MassBio2, the CO2 Dashboard

Philippe — 2023-11-24T09:05:22Z

Assessing biogenic and fossil carbon fractions in incineration flue gas, waste and energy.

From flue gas to waste composition… by measuring the origin of CO₂ (¹⁴C analysis)

An algorithm assesses biogenic and fossil CO₂, the waste composition, and the renewable energy fraction.

– http://www.cabinet-merlin.fr/v2/nos-innovations/

Geothermal CO2 capture

Philippe — 2023-11-24T09:05:19Z

Leveraging CO₂ dissolution capacity in cold versus hot water.

R&D project to combine a deep geothermal plant with permanent CO₂ storage of incineration flue gases.

The project aims to:

Store 300,000 tons of CO₂ (40% fossil) in a deep aquifer.
Recover heat from the geothermal aquifer to supply district heating.
Reduce the amount of the future European tax on waste-to-energy emissions.

– https://co2-dissolved.brgm.fr/

CoMétha Pyrogazification Project

Philippe — 2023-11-24T09:05:18Z

A disruptive technology opposing incineration and complementary with methanization.

From R&D to a full-scale pilot:

Treat a mix of organic waste, including food waste and sewage sludge
Maximize the transformation of organic matter into syngas
Minimize the volume of solid residues (ashes)
Recover nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus)

– https://www.cometha.fr/en/