SYBERT | "Waste on a Diet" project

Experiencing a growing waste production, SYBERT - local authority in charge of waste treatment in Besançon, France - and its members have decided to commit on a global plan to reduce this waste production, increase reuse and recycling and reduce the incineration of residual waste and of ultimate waste storage. "Waste on a diet" aims to achieve three goals by 2015:

1. a 25% reduction in the weight of residual household waste to reduce from 217 kg / year / capita in 2009 to 150 kg in 2015;
2. an increase of material recycling (recycling and composting), rising to 55% recycling, or an increase of 17 points in 5 years (38% in 2009);
3. the control of costs, that is to say, to limit the increase of the fees charged to the user and remain below € 90 per capita in 2015.

To achieve these objectives, SYBERT will rely on several actions that fall into two main areas:

1. reduce waste and local treatment of organic matter;
2. increase material and organic recovery in waste.

At the halfway mark of the Project, SYBERT’s gamble to reduce residual household waste is all but won, but “Waste on a diet” has reached some interesting levels of engagement and waste prevention awareness, together with, among others, collective composting and sorting rate.

More information on the Project, its objectives and outcomes is available online at http://sybert.fr.

The last “Waste on a diet” Newsletter is also available for download.