By 2030, a 15% reduction in household waste per capita should be done to respect the objectives of the law. For plastic, the legislature is even stricter: objective 100% recycled plastics in 2025. Firm resolutions that Suez, the French water and waste management company, wishes to support in the coming months and years.
To do this, the company has developed an intelligent waste counter that will allow the French to monitor their waste production in order to better control it. Antoine Bousseau, General Director of Community Services at Suez Recycling and Recovery France, was the guest of Tech&Co to explain this innovation.
Compare your consumption for a year or with that of your neighbor
“Have smart meters for water, gas or electricity So why not have a smart waste meter?” explains Antoine Bousseau. The idea for this meter arose from Suez’s desire to help the French achieve the targets set by law. “We are trying to speed up and support this transformation with an innovation that is a first in France and that may seem simple”, he adds.
The principle is also quite simple: a chip is added to the bin assigned to each household. When this chip comes into contact with the garbage container, it will indicate the weight of the waste. Thus the citizen will be able to know what he has rejected.
The houses will thus be equipped with a smartphone app which will allow them to analyze their consumption (volume of waste produced in kilograms, distribution of this waste, etc.), but above all to compare this management. “The goal is to see if I shoot a lot, more or less than before, more or less than my neighbor”, continued Antoine Bousseau.
At the moment, this technology is entering the final phase of a development that will have lasted two years. It should see the light of day in homes in the first half of 2023. The cities of Montauban and Limoges have already signed a partnership to be among the first equipped.
Source: BFM TV
