Manufacturers of mineral construction products create an eco-organization to recover inert building waste

In order to respond to this new orientation, the member companies of trade unions and professional federations representing the industries of building stone, concrete, ready-mixed or prefabricated, aggregate and cement, as well as asphalt (FIB, Roads de France, SFIC, SNBPE, SNROC, UNICEM, UNPG), have coordinated to study the creation of an eco-organization for mineral construction products generating inert waste.

More than 20 member companies of these unions are leading actions to create this eco-organization responsible for financing the treatment of inert waste from mineral products from construction and deconstruction, and improving the performance of the recycling sector.

Its shareholders will be open to all companies in the mineral sector. With a view to continuously optimizing the circular economy, companies from other sectors will also be able to join this approach.

A clear goal: to recycle more and everywhere

Inert waste from mineral construction products in the building sector represents 33 million tonnes each year. With a performance rate of 76%, this recovery sector is the best performing after that of metals. The future eco-organization aims to increase this performance rate to 90% by 2028.

To achieve this, it will rely on the existing network of 1 sites (private waste collection center, sorting or recycling platform) located across the country and to which are added 500 asphalt plants that recycle materials. recovered on road or VRD sites (roads and various networks). This private network dedicated to inert waste from building professionals is also supplemented by a network of 500 public waste collection centers which receive inert waste from individuals.

It will be a question of financially supporting:

• Exemplary project owners whose sorting of inert waste on their sites meets separate collection standards allowing their reuse or recycling.
• Local authorities allow them to collect inert waste from private individuals free of charge at the voluntary drop-off points that they operate.
• The establishment of a traceability system to support the fight against illegal dumping and to distinguish materials intended for the building sector (subject to EPR) from materials intended for the Public Works sector (not subject to EPR) . This traceability should be based on the transparency of the eco-contribution to avoid any mutualisation of the operating costs of the PWR sector with Public Works activities explicitly outside the scope of the PWR.

The organization and functioning modalities of the eco-organization are, in conjunction with the public authorities, being defined and will be specified at the beginning of July.