Adapted infrastructures and dedicated teams
The Decoset mixed union was created in 1993. It brings together 8 public inter-municipal cooperation establishments (EPCI) in the Toulouse region, that is, 152 municipalities with more than one million inhabitants. As part of the delegation of powers from these EPCI to Decoset, the union now manages the treatment and recovery of waste thanks to its dedicated infrastructures: waste collection centers, energy recovery units, transfer and classification centers and platforms of composting.
Thus, the waste is collected by the EPCI and transported to the treatment facilities: RMO (Residual Domestic Waste) to the Energy Recovery Units (UVE), packaging and paper to the classification centers, plants to the composting platforms, etc. . Today, Decoset directly employs 70 agents to operate its equipment, to which must be added 200 people employed by its service providers.
Working collectively to reduce waste
The future of the Toulouse-Mirail Energy Recovery Unit (UVE) has recently been the subject of prior consultation. Commissioned in 1969, this unit, which incinerates and treats residual household waste (OMR) through the production of electricity and heat, is getting old. There are three solutions available to the Union: restructure, rebuild, or leave the plant as is. The public consultation ended at the end of November and its conclusions will be known at the beginning of the year. In 2023, a strategic plan must also be made public that establishes the master lines of the territory’s waste policy, prepared with the EPCI, elected officials and agents. His motto: promote the reduction of waste at source, recycling, recovery and circular economy approaches. . Finally, a new sorting center should see the light of day by 2025.
But since the best waste is the one that we do not produce, Decoset is committed to prevention and awareness. Objectives: not to waste, to limit the production of waste as much as possible, to reuse locally, to recover as much as possible, to recycle everything that is recyclable… In its approach to supporting the change in behavior of the inhabitants of the territory, the union has created, for For example, educational gardens where residents can come and discover natural gardening. It also organizes school tours of its recycling centers to educate local students on the importance of reducing waste. Already in 2015, thanks to its commitments, the territory was the winner of the call for projects “Zero Waste Territory, Zero Waste” and since June 2022 it has the label “territory committed to the ecological transition-circular economy”. To this day, work continues to provide residents with the most effective solutions to reduce their waste and recover it better.
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Source: BFM TV
