Zero Waste Strategy

Waste management in ecological and climatic terms is a real challenge and requires measures to match the stakes. So, since 2020, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole has chosen to implement a "Zero Waste" strategy of waste prevention and reduction. Directly impacting the behavior and daily life of every user, it is moving towards optimized, reasoned and virtuous waste management.

This ambition aims to:

• prevent and reduce waste production ;
• better sorting of waste produced;
• better conservation of local resources.

At the heart of this strategy: waste prevention, circular economy and recovery.

1. Optimizing collection and sorting

• Implementing a genuine biowaste
• Optimization of the bulky waste collection
• Implantation of new Points d’Apport Volontaire (colonnes), in particular for the glass
• Removal of the packaging and paper by yellow bags (replacement by bins or Points d'Apport Volontaire)

2. Improving the recovery performance of the processing chain

• Ametyst : reinforcement of the "green line" for composting biowaste and startup of a dedicated energy-producing methanization line
• Demeter : optimizing its capacity by sharply reducing the rate of refusals (poorly sorted waste)

3. Changing behavior through prevention and awareness-raising

• Communication as close as possible to citizens with awareness-raising tools
• Companying citizens towards a change in their mode of consumption and towards sorting at a lower cost
• . consumption patterns and sorting at source

4. Stimulating and structuring the circular economy dynamic

• Supporting and developing a network of players dedicated to the second life of objects
• Applying the charter for eco-responsible events
• Eliminating the disposable, single-usesingle-use disposables and promotion of bulk and deposits

A multi-year investment plan of €151 million has thus been adopted to preserve the region's environment, including €45 million for the Zero Waste strategy.