Jour: 26 juin 2025

A visit to the recycling facility Recently we visited the trash recycling sorting center near our home just outside Paris and were fascinated by the machinery and process of treating trash as well as the value in recycling. At the same time seeing all that we throw away in one place was disheartening. We learned quite a lot about the process, how it works, who pays for it, the value of it. Perhaps you heard in the news in April that a recycling plant in Paris 17th burned to the ground. The destroyed plant, dated only from 2019. And fire is a constant threat in the trash business. The cause of this particular fire is still not known but it could have been due to poor sorting. For example be careful not to put batteries in the recycling or trash can. They can explode and cause fires in the collection trucks and at the plants. Other fire causing items include canisters with a gas. Such as empty Soda Stream cylinders or small butane canisters. The most frequent offenders…