French Solid Waste Partnership

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

Philippe — 2024-05-21T13:37:20Z

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.

Philippe — 2024-05-21T10:44:31Z

Product vendors contribute to finance the recycling or final disposal of packaging waste to prevent pollution.

Product Responsibility Organisations are private companies accredited by the State:

They have to be controlled by public authorities to ensure equal service to all citizens;
They distribute the financial resources to the operators;
In the case of Syctom they contribute 11% of the total operating budget (2023)

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:

Philippe — 2023-11-24T09:05:18Z

A disruptive technology opposing incineration and complementary with methanization.

From R&D to a full-scale pilot:

Philippe — 2023-11-24T09:05:16Z

Supporting local authorities to sort, collect and treat domestic food waste.

Mandatory source separation of organic waste as of January 2024:

Collection schemes: on-site composting, door-to-door collection, voluntary deposit
Targeting 100 kt/year of biowaste collected in the service area
Construction of a methanizer on the river port of Gennevilliers by 2026 to produce biomethane and organic fertilizers