Recycling in Meze

Here in Meze we have a two bin system.  The brown bin is for garbage, which is collected twice a week.  The blue bin is for recyclables, which are collected once a week.  Recyclables include paper, cans and certain plastics, but not glass.

Glass must be carried to large plastic containers that are found at strategic locations around town.  Periodically, they fill up, at which time they are supposed to be replaced with an empty.  Regrettably, what often happens is they fill up, and are not replaced, and frustrated recyclers leave their glass piled up beside the containers.  Often it is broken.

Organics are not processed by the municipality.  The last time we were in France, I started a compost in the backyard of our house.  Our landlady thought we were doing something devious.  She clearly disapproved of both the compost area and the black soil that it generated.  Since then, municipalities have distributed compost bins and encourage residents to use them; however, as best as I can tell, few do.  We have now set one up in our backyard, and it works very well in the warm temperature here.