Access to the public tip is free. Simply visit the Town Hall with proof of identity and address and you will be issued with a card giving you access to the tip.
You will also be entitled to receive a household wheelie bin (depending on your area of residence) upon presentation of your proof of address. You may also apply by downloading the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis wheelie bin request form and sending it to the Town Hall.
In most cases, the Conurbation has supplied residents with a bin (household waste allocation) and the waste disposal vehicle can carry out door-to-door collection.
In cases where there is insufficient space to store the bin – usually in the upper area of town – two solutions are available:
Regular collection of rubbish bags from the pavement (3 times a week) by waste disposal vehicles
Voluntary drop-off of waste at specially-allocated spots
The Council would like to remind you that bins should be put out the evening before and taken back inside straight after collection.
Collection lasts from 5 am-1 pm. In 80% of cases, you will hear the dustbin lorry pass at the same time of day, but delays may occur: routes may change, road works for example, lorry breakdown or staff absence mean times may change.
This is why we ask that bins be put out the evening before and brought back in once they have been emptied.Â
DISCOURTEOUS ACTIVITY IN THE UPPER AREA OF TOWN
Underground waste containers with lifts help to ‘make disappear’ wheelie bins and refuse bin liners from pavements; waste is placed underground, thereby improving the aspect and cleanliness of our streets.
BUT:
Bags that fit into underground containers (50l) as well as those that do not (+50l) are placed next to the hatches even though the lids show green indicating containers are not full. Waste that should be taken to voluntary drop-off spots or to the tip is also found here.
Furthermore, too many bags are left on the floor after the dustbin lorries have passed. They are subsequently split open by animals giving our old town a bad image.
Household waste is collected three times a week; one simple gesture to remember... leave your bins out the night before !
Bulky waste
Bulky waste is defined as household articles, (excluding small objects that fit into a car, basement clear-outs, boxes, clothing, wooden planks, iron, building site waste, etc.)
It can be collected by Council Technical Services.
Just contact admin at Technical Services on 04 90 57 40 70. You will be informed by telephone just before collection.
Problems and geolocation :
All lorries are equipped with a sort of ‘black box’.
Thanks to geolocation, when a driver arrives at an address it is immediately recorded on a computer so that, should a problem arise, the driver is simply required to fill in a questionnaire to report any abnormality (wrong content, damaged or unsuitable bin etc.) A ‘refusal to collect’ label is stuck to the relevant bin. Each week, a list indexing all irregularities is edited.Â
FINE: the local police may give a €35 (bylaw dated 07/2006) to anyone leaving waste outside of collection times or in unauthorised places.
Waste management and collection of the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis: 04 90 44 77 90
Water management
For information concerning your connection to the water mains, please contact the Passerelle :Â 0 969 39 40 50. Especially in the following situations:
Newly arrived in town
If you’ve moved or left the town
Authorisation for connection to the water mains
Invoice payments
Technical problems
(blocked drain – leak before the meter – stopcock requires changing – etc.) requests for work must be made at the branch office for intervention of Technical Services.
The Mallemort water treatment plant: a new project designed to collect used water from 8,300 inhabitants
This new plant ensures treatment of used water in the town of Mallemort. It was created to satisfy the needs of the growing local urbanisation in response to new standards concerning compliance regulations, and to adapt to current used water treatment techniques (the previous plant in Mallemort dated back to 1977).
Design choices were guided mainly by environmental concerns. As an example, air treatment is obtained through biological treatments which considerably reduce the use of chemical reagents. Moreover, this plant uses new technical solutions that pre-empt the ‘almost inevitable’ strengthening of legislation, especially the treatment of nitrogen and phosphorus even though strict legislation did not make it mandatory.
Located close to the Mallemort suspension bridge, construction of this project was carried out according to recommendations from the Architects des Bâtiments de France. As a matter of fact, the site was raised so as to avoid any risk of flooding because of its proximity to the River Durance.
This is the 15th water management plant on the territory of Pays Salonais.
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Since 2002, water and sanitation facilities have been run by the Pays Salonais authorities, from production and storage services, the distribution of drinking water to the collection and treatment of used water from 17 towns in the area.
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