ACTIVITY REPORT O4 O6 O8 EDITORIAL SYCTOM'S TREATMENT – IDENTITY FACILITIES CARD – – 10 12 14 KEY HIGHLIGHTS PERFORMANCE FIGURES – AND EFFICIENCY – – 16 Reconstruction of the Ivry/ Paris XIII centre moving on the right track 18 2019, Syctom prepares proactively for the extension of sorting instructions 20 Modernisation for enhanced performance 24 34 APPENDIX PROXIMITY LEADING BY EXAMPLE TECHNICAL AND AND MOBILISATION AND INNOVATION FINANCIAL REPORT 2019 – – – 26 Working together to take 36 Cométha: innovation to fuel 53 Budget on the Great Challenge renewable energies 56 Annual report on the price 28 An influential voice 38 Committed on a daily basis, and quality of the public waste in debates on all fronts disposal service 30 Continued grassroots 42 Innovating today to build 62 Detailed operations report presence our tomorrow Jacques GAUTIER 4 – President of Syctom since october 2017 REDOUBLING OUR VIGILANCE TO GUARANTEE THE CONTINUITY AND QUALITY OF THE PUBLIC WASTE TREATMENT SERVICE EDITORIAL Jacques Gautier, soon to step down from the position in a decline in the prices of the materials we sort and he has held since October 2017 at the helm of Syctom, resell. This trend will not only weigh on our economic looks back on the events that made 2019 a pivotal year, model, but it will also jeopardise the efforts made to on the measures taken during the Covid-19 health “save the planet”, at a time when we must more than crisis to ensure the continuity of Syctom’s mission, ever reduce waste production, and recycle and reuse as well as on the challenges to take on in the future, better. so that the public waste treatment service remains More generally, this major crisis that we are going efficient and responsible. through will have financial impacts at all levels, including the financing of our activities. We will do How did the year 2019 mark a milestone in becoming our utmost to continue to modernise our industrial more aware of the challenges inherent to waste facilities, but there is concern that we may not have the management? financial and budgetary resources to complete all our projects on schedule. We will have to show redoubled The debates that punctuated the year made waste agility and adaptability. management a burning issue, in different ways. First of all, there was the project to implement a deposit system for plastic bottles, which we opposed. And How exactly can this agility and adaptability of the then, there was an increase in the TGAP (General tax on sector be guaranteed? polluting activities), provided for by the Finance Act for We need to be imaginative and persuasive in 2019, which we also disapproved. These two measures defending our convictions, especially on the urgent run counter to the momentum initiated in recent years need to promote eco-design, so as to bring to market to ensure that waste treatment is part of a rationale only products and materials that are economically that is both environmentally friendly and economically recyclable. viable. In addition, and arguably in a more directly There is also the need to deploy a more regional palpable manner, the 2019 strikes underscored how approach to waste treatment solutions. Syctom’s absolutely essential waste treatment is. We had never territory, for example, which is highly dense and which been so aware of the immediate repercussions of any has a heating network that is unique in France, calls 5 interruption in the public waste management service. for energy recovery from residual household waste, The year 2019 therefore more than ever highlighted especially as we are aiming at zero landfill at the same the strategic and health importance of the treatment of time. We cannot therefore continue to dogmatically household waste. apply a uniform tax system without taking into account the specific regional context and the efforts made. It revealed the importance of waste treatment, but at Finally, our ability to adapt will depend on our the same time the fragility of the system. What does ability to better coordinate the actions of the various this translate into? stakeholders involved in waste management. In The Covid-19 health crisis has laid bare the fragility of this regard, the year 2019 mapped out encouraging a system whose sustainability depends on the agents prospects, with the launch of the Great Challenge. who work for our activity and in our centres and on a both This unprecedented collective approach should allow collective and individual financial effort. The collapse us to make our public service more efficient, from an in raw material costs - starting in 2019, then in 2020, in environmental and economic standpoint, in the interest correlation with crude oil prices - will inevitably result of all. THE RENEWAL OF THE SYNDICATE COMMITTEE POSTPONED Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the postponement of the second round of municipal elections, Syctom's Syndicate Committee could not be renewed in May 2020, as initially planned. AT the end of the municipal elections, a meeting to appoint the new Syndicate Committee will be held with the elected officials designated by Syctom’s member territories. They will elect the President and the 15 vice-presidents, as well as the Board members to govern the Syndicate. SYCTOM'S IDENTITY CARD — Tremblay-en-France Azur Villepinte Pierrefitte- Épinay- sur-Seine T7 PARIS TERRES D'ENVOL sur-Seine Villetaneuse Stains Argenteuil Dugny Aulnay-sous-Bois Le Blanc- Saint-Denis Mesnil Gennevilliers Sevran Villeneuve- T6 PLAINE COMMUNE la-Garenne Le Bourget T5 BOUCLE L’Île- La Courneuve Vaujours NORD DE SEINE Colombes Saint-Denis Drancy Bois- Livry-Gargan Colombes Aubervilliers Coubron Asnières- Saint-Ouen- La Garenne- sur-Seine Les Pavillons- Colombes sur-Seine Bobigny sous-Bois Clichy- Clichy sous-Bois Pantin Courbevoie Levallois- 18e Bondy Montfermeil Nanterre T4 PARIS OUEST Perret Noisy-le-Sec Le Raincy 17e Le Pré- LA DÉFENSE Neuilly- T8 EST ENSEMBLE 19e Saint- T9 GRAND PARIS Puteaux sur-Seine Gervais Les GRAND EST 9e 10e Lilas Romainville Villemomble 8e T1 PARIS Rosny- Gagny Rueil-Malmaison Suresnes sous-Bois e Bagnolet Neuilly- 2 e 16e 3 11e 20e Plaisance er Montreuil 1 Neuilly-sur-Marne 7e 4e Gournay- Saint- sur-Marne Cloud Garches 6e Fontenay- Vincennes sous-Bois e Le Perreux- Vaucresson e 5 Saint- Boulogne- 15 12e Mandé Nogent- sur-Marne Bry- Marnes- Billancourt sur- Noisy-le-Grand Marne sur-Marne la- e Le Chesnay- 14 e Rocquencourt Coquette 13 Villiers- Sèvres Issy-les- Vanves T10 PARIS EST sur-Marne Ville- Moulineaux Charenton- d'Avray le-Pont Joinville- MARNE & BOIS Saint-Maurice le-Pont Malakoff Gentilly Champigny- T3 GRAND PARIS Montrouge Ivry-sur-Seine sur-Marne Versailles Chaville SEINE OUEST Le Kremlin- Maisons- Châtillon Arcueil Bicêtre Communauté d'agglomération Alfort Saint-Maur- Chennevières- Le Plessis- Viroflay Meudon Bagneux Trévise VERSAILLES GRAND PARC Clamart des-Fossés sur-Marne Villejuif Fontenay- Cachan Vitry-sur-Seine Ormesson- aux-Roses Vélizy- Créteil sur-Marne La Queue- Alfortville en-Brie Villacoublay Le Plessis- Bourg- L’Haÿ- Robinson Sceaux la-Reine les-Roses Bonneuil- Noiseau sur-Marne Sucy-en-Brie T2 VALLÉE SUD GRAND PARIS Chevilly- Choisy- Châtenay-Malabry Larue le-Roi Valenton T11 GRAND PARIS Thiais SUD EST AVENIR Fresnes 6 Antony Rungis Boissy- Limeil- Saint-Léger Orly Brévannes Marolles- en-Brie Villeneuve-le-Roi Paray- Villeneuve- Saint-Georges Santeny Vieille- Ablon- Poste sur-Seine Villecresnes T12 GRAND-ORLY SEINE BIÈVRE Mandres- Athis-Mons les-Roses Morangis Périgny- sur-Yerres Juvisy- sur-Orge Savigny- sur-Orge Viry-Châtillon Since January 26, 2017, Syctom has been administered by a Syndicate Committee composed of 90 local elected officials representing 11 territories of the Metropolis of Greater Paris and the Versailles Grand Parc Agglomeration Community. It defines the syndicate’s policy, votes on its budget, decides on investments and the management methods used. It rules on membership and withdrawal requests from local authorities. It elects the Board members and the members of the Tender Committee. The Board is composed of the President, the 15 Vice-Presidents and 20 other representatives, i.e. 36 members in total. A part of the powers of the Syndicate Committee has been entrusted to the Bureau for better governance. On 20 October 2017, the 90 delegates of the Syndicate Committee unanimously elected Jacques Gautier as Syctom’s President. RENEWAL OF THE SYNDICATE COMMITTEE Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the postponement of the second round of municipal elections, Syctom's Syndicate Committee could not be renewed in May 2020, as initially planned. At the end of the municipal elections, a meeting to appoint the new Syndicate Committee will be held with the elected officials designated by the local authorities in Syctom’s territory. PRESIDENT OF SYCTOM SYCTOM’S ELECTED OFFICIALS Jacques GAUTIER Honorary Mayor and Municipal councillor of Garches T1 PARIS SYCTOM’S VICE-PRESIDENTS Paul SIMONDON Jérôme COUMET Jean-François Anne SOUYRIS 1st Vice-President 6th Vice-President LEGARET 11th Vice-President Deputy Mayor of the 10th Vice-President Deputy Mayor Mayor of Paris 13th arr. of Paris, Mayor of of Paris Metropolitan the 1st arr. of Paris, councillor Regional councillor of Île-de-France SYCTOM’S BOARD MEMBERS Catherine Hervé BÉGUÉ Jean-Didier Florence Claire DE BARATTI-ELBAZ Councillor BERTHAULT BERTHOUT CLERMONT- Mayor of the of Paris Councillor Mayor of the 5th TONNERRE 12th arr. of Paris, of Paris, arr. of Paris, Councillor of Paris, Metropolitan Metropolitan Regional councillor Metropolitan councillor councillor of Île-de-France councillor François Philippe Éric HELARD Patrick DAGNAUD DUCLOUX Councillor TRÉMÈGE Mayor of the 19th Councillor of Paris, Councillor arr. of Paris, of Paris Metropolitan of Paris Metropolitan councillor councillor SYCTOM’S DELEGATES Jean-Noël Pierre Hélène Pascale Gypsie BLOCH AQUA AURIACOMBE BIDARD BLADIER- Councillor Councillor Councillor Deputy CHASSAIGNE of Paris of Paris of Paris Mayor Councillor of Paris of Paris Julie BOILLOT Claudine Galla BRIDIER Frédérique Virginie Councillor BOUYGUES Deputy CALANDRA DASPET of Paris, Councillor Mayor Mayor of the Councillor Metropolitan of Paris of Paris, 20th arr.