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More videos on FranceTV: https://www.france.tv/france-5/sur-le... Subscribe to follow Hugo Clément's investigations: https://bit.ly/surlefront Where do they bury our trash? - On the front with Hugo Clément January 22, 2024 While many French people think that household waste landfills are doomed to disappear, the reality is quite different: many are expanding all over France. One in five waste is still buried, or 17 million tons per year, while in 2025, the law will only authorize 9 million tons. Hugo Clément reveals the hidden side of waste management. He visits cities where selective sorting bins are not collected from residents and gigantic, legal and standard landfills, from which plastic is dumped into nature and covering entire woods. In Montech, we don't talk about landfill but about "securing waste" and "protecting nature". A protection which, at Vallon-des-Pins, a landfill site for "non-hazardous" waste opened in 2022 in Bagnols-en-Forêt (Var), has nevertheless required the destruction of 17 hectares of forest and the digging of a colossal hole 50 metres deep where the waste will be compacted and compressed for twenty-five years above a sort of protective plastic tarpaulin that is in principle ultra-resistant and airtight but which some unsorted waste - tons of glass, hospital waste, electric scooters, etc. - threatens to damage. The place, which is shaped like Dante's Inferno, could make it pass for a place for walking. Food waste, battery fluids and other things even worse ferment and flow in the form of a highly toxic "juice" that must be stored in a huge pool in order to be reprocessed. This giant trash can also produces an abundance of greenhouse gas that is burned on site before, one day, being able to run buses. In this original format combining investigation and discovery of our most precious ecosystems, Hugo Clément takes us closer to the women and men who are fighting to defend the planet.