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Since several years, the Paris City Council is actively encouraging and helping finance community composting facilities on housing estates.

During the 2012 edition of the European Week for Waste Reduction, yet another activity related to community composting was implemented in Paris: The pioneering ‘master-composter’ Jean-Jacques Fasquel (“CompoSt'ory”) delivered a training session for city-dwellers how to install and use a community compost facilities in urban neighbourhoods. The compost expert explained the audience which products can go into the compost, what users have to think about when using it and how the compost works.

When Fasquel set up Paris’s first urban collective composting facility in Paris in 2008, he was confronted with mixed reactions. But he managed to convince the landlords and the Paris City Council to provide several 600-litre wooden compost containers. Furthermore, there  are now around 100 “master-composters” like himself in France to train local authorities’ staff and the public.

Setting up community compost facilities not only follows the aim of promoting composting, but it is furthermore intended to reduce the amount of food thrown away in the first place.

This development in Paris is very much in line with the Miniwaste project. The partners in the Miniwaste project (Brno, LIPOR, and Rennes Métropole) have gained wide experience on the field of community composting in the course of the Miniwaste project. The best practices are described and explained in detail in the Miniwaste inventory.