Pioneer and ambitious legislation. During its adoption in 2020, the “antigaspillage” law for a circular economy (AGEC) had been praised unanimously. Five years later, the balance sheet is meager: the circular economy is moribund and France is still a bad European student in the management of its waste. A figure illustrates this failure: only 23 % of plastic waste is now recycled. Very far from the European target (at least 50 %) in 2025 and light years from our Austrian or Dutch neighbors who border on 60 %. A delay that costs France very dearly: each year, it pays more than 1.6 billion euros to Europe for the plastic tax.
“You have to breathe new life into the circular economy”estimate the Senators Marta de Cidrac (Yvelines, Les Républicains) and Jacques Fernique (Bas-Rhin, Ecologists), in an information report devoted to the Agec law application published on Wednesday June 25. To achieve this, they offer a big bang from its governance.
Because it first responds to an environmental ambition (reducing the production of waste), the implementation of the law has so far been carried out by the Ministry of Ecological Transition. “There is a lack of conductor to deploy the circular economy which is also a means of reindustrializing our territories by developing the sectors of re -use, repair and recycling”explain the two rapporteurs of the information mission. Senators plead for the implementation of a “Interministerial industrial strategy”.
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