The department of Aude: Nearly 100% of waste sorted

New sorting plant in Carcassonne.

The Carcassonne plant produces bales of over 500 kg where everything is mixed. These bales will then be transported to Mende, in Lozère, to be transformed into flakes.

Once clean, the flakes which are from the same family of plastic are melted to become a raw material, which can be directly used by industrialists as polypropylene, for example…