Single use plastic in France.

Posted on October 24, 2018 by bill

Déchets : fast-foods hors la loi ? Waste: fast-food cafés outside the law?

Les déchets de la restauration rapide envahissent l’espace public et nos poubelles débordent.

The waste from fast-food restaurents litter public places and cause bins to overflow.

Les déchets de la restauration rapide envahissent l’espace public et nos poubelles débordent. A major cause of litter.

En France, plus de 32 000 fast-foods servent quotidiennement 21 millions de clients. McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC et autres Exki et croulent sous des milliers de tonnes de déchets. Gobelets, sacs en papier, couverts en plastique, canettes, restes de sandwich… McDonald’sproduit à lui seul 1kg de déchets par seconde.

In France, more than 32,000 fast food outlets daily serve 21 million clients. McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC et Exki collapse under thousands of tons of waste. Cups, paper bags, plastic covers, bottles, remains of sandwiches…McDonalds alone produce 1 kg of waste per second.

Depuis deux ans, la loi oblige pourtant chaque restaurant à trier ses déchets : poubelles différentes pour séparer papier, métal, plastique, verre, bois et nourriture. Mélanger les déchets est illégal, les entreprises risquent jusqu’à 150 000 euros d’amende.

For the past two years, the law obliges each restaurant to separate its waste: different bins to separate paper, metal, plastic, glass, wood and food. Mixing waste is illegal, the companies risk up to €150,000 fine.

Les fast-foods respectent-ils la loi ? Certaines marques se targuent  de développer des stratégies de développement durables ou d’être des modèle écolo. Pour “Envoyé spécial”, des journalistes se sont faits embauchés dans les cuisines de fast-foods. Derrière les promesses marketing des marques, le bilan n’est pas très brillant.

Do the fast food outlets observe the law? Certain outlet franchises target to develop durable strategies or to adopt an ecological model. For  “Envoyé spécial”, (Investigative TV programme) journalists got hired in fast-food kitchens. Behind the outlets marketing promises, the statistics are not great.

Des milliers de tonnes de déchets non recyclés, toujours plus de plastique, et des emballages abandonnés sur la voie publique. Certains fast-foods proposent aux clients de trier leur déchets. Les journalistes ont remonté la filière, pour vérifier si les emballages étaient bien recyclés.

Thousands of tons of non-recyclable waste, for the most part plastic, and wrappings thrown on public roads and pathways. Many fast-food outlets encourage customers to sort out their waste. The journalists sifted back through the waste to verify if the wrappings were being recycled/separated.  

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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