Residents of Marseille threaten to block access for garbage trucks to the Septèmes landfill
Marseillais from the 15th arrondissement who live near the Septèmes landfill, threatening to block access to garbage trucks. For decades they have been denouncing the nuisances suffered on a daily basis: noise, smell, pollution but also road safety. It must be said that until 150 heavy goods vehicles, filled with waste from Marseille but also from Nice, circulate every day in the streets of these highly urbanized districts. In the middle of houses and big cities, Kalliste park, La Solidarité and La Granière, the passage of these trucks in heavily populated area, poses many problems. France Bleu Provence checked the daily life of the inhabitants in the middle of the trucks.
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Support from the city of Marseille
The fight of the inhabitants is supported by the mayor of 15-16. Nadia Boulainseur believes that landfill trucks should not and passing through Marseilles. “We can no longer continue to have this access to the landfill through an urbanized area which is very dense. With in particular on the route the school group of La Solidarité. The trucks pass at high speed. We are not going to wait to have a drama !”
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Closing promises not kept
The inhabitants of these districts, which are among the most disadvantaged in Marseille, are all the more upset that they no longer count the state’s promises that have not been kept. Nadia Boulainseur calls back the commitment made in 2016 by the government
therefore, to close the Septèmes landfill at the end of 2022. Ségolène Royal, Minister of Ecology under François Hollande, had subsequently made the request to the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône. A political decision never applied and after a public consultation, which has little interest and use, the site managed by Veolia
got a extension of activity
further postponed until March 31, 2023, against the opinion of the city of Marseille.
Scalded by more than 20 years of struggle in vain, many residents have given up, convinced to resume for at least 10 years of discharge. Even if some continue to mobilize. Sector CIQs plan to hold a public meeting for informant the biggest number.