with the garbage collectors’ strike, waste is accumulating on the sidewalks in Paris and in several cities in France

It does not smell good. In Paris, Saint-Brieuc, Rennes, Nantes or even Le Havre, the garbage collectors’ strike against the pension reform is starting to increase the volume of waste piling up on the sidewalks, arousing the concern of local residents, even tensions. policies.

Tuesday, March 14, garbage collectors and agents in charge of cleanliness of the City of Paris voted to continue the strike “at least until March 20”, during a general assembly on the incineration site of Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne). On the ground, the situation varies according to the sectors, the most affected being the ten arrondis*****ts where the collection is carried out by the agents of the town hall. But even in those managed by private service providers, collection is disrupted since the three incineration plants, in Ivry-sur-Seine, Issy-les-Moulineaux and Saint-Ouen, which depend on Syctom, the metropolitan waste agency household appliances, are blocked.

Monday at Paris, 5,600 tonnes remained uncollected, according to the town hall, a volume that is increasing every day. And “the conflict escalates” with the blocking of the Pizzorno depot, a private operator, warns the assistant (PS) for cleanliness, Colombe Brossel. That this service provider sends agents to the capital as reinforcements from its bases in the Var and the Côte d’Azur has sparked controversy, according Nice morning. “We gave a helping hand to our Parisian collaborators”, explained the general manager of the company, Frédéric Devalle, according to the regional newspaper.

The strikers remain determined to continue their action at least until Wednesday, day of examination of the bill in a joint committee between deputies and senators, also a day of demonstration – the police headquarters has also asked the Paris City Hall to do what is necessary to ensure that the garbage is removed on the route of the procession, according to BFM-TV. The CGT recalls that garbage collectors and drivers can currently claim retirement at 57 without bonus, an age pushed back to 59 if the reform is adopted.

It is also for an index revaluation that they are mobilized, because their career development is negotiated directly with the town hall. The socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, finds herself in an uncomfortable situation, she who decreed the town hall “solidarity with the social movement”.

The opponent (Les Républicains, LR) Rachida Dati claims “the establishment of a minimum service for garbage collection”, and immediately “to appeal to integration companies”. Minimum service or benefits, “It is legally prohibited”replied the first deputy (PS), Emmanuel Grégoire, for whom the requisitions are “an initiative and legal competence that fall under the State”. The mayor (LR) of 17^e borough, Geoffroy Boulard, for his part assured on Twitter that he had appealed to the prefect for the waste treatment centers to be “liberated”.

Targeting Anne Hidalgo, the Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, defended a “yet another example of inaction and contempt of Parisians”. “It is a national situation that other cities are facing”replies the right arm of the mayor, citing Nantes, Antibes, Saint-Brieuc or Le Havre.

In fact, collection is disrupted at Saint Brieuc (Côtes-d’Armor), where the movement began on March 7, according to the agglomeration. AT Nantesmovement “is scheduled to last at least until Wednesday, March 15. Until that date, users are asked to bring in their bin and take it out at the next collection, no catch-up is planned.wrote Nantes Métropole on Twitter.

“It’s going to overflow everywhere”

AT Bourges also, collection was disrupted on Tuesday, according to France Bleu, the Suez site being blocked from 4:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. by around fifty employees and union delegates. For the days to come, “the agglomeration and its service provider will ensure that the resources that can be mobilized are equitably distributed over all sectors to avoid the accumulation of household waste”, said the Bourges + urban community in a press release.

Situation comparable to Mans, according to Actu.fr, where the Chauvinière waste management center has been blocked since Monday. collection vehicles “can go to the oven because it is not blocked, but there is still a considerable slowdown in rounds”said a representative of the CGT.

The agglomeration of reindeer entered the dance on Monday, with the city’s three collection sites at a standstill, according to France 3. In Pacé, in the suburbs of Rennes, “we will collect the waste when the reform is thrown away”, read on a banner. And an FO activist to warn: “If the bins are not emptied, it will inevitably overflow everywhere in the municipalities. » Anthony, a truck driver, notes a ripple effect between the different mobilizations of garbage collectors: “Since it works in Paris, Montpellier or Marseille, why not in Rennes. »