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From: Fred Friedman (FRIEDMAN.FRED@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV)
Date: Thu Oct 09 1997 - 09:20:00 EDT 

Date: Thu, 9 Oct 97 14:20 WET DST
From: FRIEDMAN.FRED@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV (Fred Friedman)
Subject: Re: Recycling in France (Karen)

Oct. 9, 1997

Dear Karen,

Perhaps a case study will help: Lille, a capital the the rural north, a city of 1 million recycles cardboard, paper, bottles, food waste, metals, paperboard, etc. It has 1 MRF which in its first year of operations recycled 27,500 metric tons of materials at a total cost of $180/ton.

Overall, only about 4% of MSW in France is recycled, although aanother 6% is composted. In 95, 49% was landfilled, and 35% combusted.

France produces about 77 million tons of MSW per year.

For further reading, there was a 2 part series on the Waste Industry in France , Jan Feb, 1992 in WASTE AGE and a follow on article 3 years later in 3/95.

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