Haut Bugey: New containers in town for recycling your large cardboard boxes

Door-to-door recycling was rolled out in the Haut-Bugey urban area (HBA) between late 2022 and 2024. The yellow-lidded bins are used to collect bulk recyclable waste : packaging and paper, including cardboard. Large cardboard boxes previously had to be taken to a recycling center.

In ten years, their annual volume has increased from around 562 tonnes (2015) to 652 tonnes (2025) across all the Haut-Bugey Agglomeration (HBA) waste disposal sites. This figure has remained stable for three years. "That's the whole problem," says Benjamin Monconduit, director of the waste division at HBA. "The number of cardboard boxes placed on the market has been increasing since the Covid health crisis and the explosion of...

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