Waste management in the metropolis of Montpellier: François Vasquez, worried, writes to elected officials

François Vasquez demande du temps pour instaurer un débat. Midi Libre – JEAN MICHEL MART

The vice-president of the Montpellier Metropolis wrote to his colleagues in the community to ask them to postpone a deliberation which provides an orientation for the waste treatment sector that ;he contests.

It's a stone in the gray bin of waste management in the Metropolis. In a letter addressed to all elected officials of the Metropolis council, vice-president François Vasquez, is alarmed by a possible deliberation of the community which, he says, "is antithetical to the zero waste strategy" which he has carried since the start of the mandate.

A plastic boiler

The elected official is concerned about an orientation which would lead to the establishment of a so-called CSR sector for recovered fuels, i.e. a "plastic boiler" which would be built on the Ametyst site. "To feed the 45,000 tonnes at the high calorific value of the boiler, the industrialist will need 100,000 tonnes to dispose of. However, our policy aims to divide them in half. It is therefore easy to understand that this orientation is banking on the failure of our zero waste strategy" writes François Vasquez. He believes that the proposed choice is that of a "heavy, ruinous industrial sector, the contract will amount to several hundred million euros" and "all the more useless as we have the incineration capacity on our territory by 2029".

A tip scheduled for February 13

The metropolitan councilor assures that "economic relevance requires a pooling of industrial facilities, two incinerators in Sète and Lunel-Viel and a biogas plant biowaste collected separately in Montpellier" he adds. 

The next metropolitan council is scheduled for February 13, but the agenda must be communicated this week by the community. If the deliberation on waste management were to be included there François Vasquez asks his colleagues to demand its postponement "in order to authorize an informed debate" on the subject.

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