RECYCLE INERT SOIL AND GREEN WASTE TO CREATE FERTILE SOIL As part of these reflections on urban metabolism, Plaine Commune is piloting a new call for projects. It is entitled “Building new recycling channels for building materials together”. The aim of ECT’s fertile substrate production is twofold: to recycle inert soil from construction sites and to recycle green waste compost. This mixture enables the rapid creation of technosols. PRESERVE TOPSOIL, STOP ITS IMPORTATION Topsoil is a natural resource that must be preserved. It is important to keep imports to a minimum. ECT’s fertile substrate represents a 100% eco-responsible alternative: Produced

Simon Boudvin, artist and teacher at ENSP, led a first EARTHWORKS workshop in partnership with ECT. The aim of the workshop? 4 days to design and create a work of art using 1000 m3 of soil. For this workshop, attended by some thirty students from the Ecole de Paysage de Versailles, ECT provided a site, inert soil, a bulldozer and its operator. What’s at stake? They are many and varied: Rediscovering the conceptual roots of Land Art Understanding this landscape rebuilt with inert soil Creating a landscape-scale object The gamble paid off! A new landscape appears! Photo credit Simon Boudvin

Grisy-Suisnes (77) castle development project a success The people of Grisy-Suisnes have been won over by the project to save the château. Supported by SAFER and operated by ECT. In Edition 77 of Le Parisien, journalist Marine Legrand reports on the public meeting held to discuss the project led by SAFER and ECT. Read the article in Le Parisien 77 SAFER IDF has officially launched the 1st phase of rehabilitation work on the Domaine de la-Grange-Le-Roy in Grisy-Suisnes (77). On this occasion, Laurent Mogno, President of ECT, presented the phasing of inert soil inputs. The aim of the project is

Interview “We need to promote the reuse of inert soil excavated from building sites” (Laurent Mogno, ECT) AUA – Paris – Friday, May 17, 2019 – Interview n° 146743 [We need to promote the reuse of excavated inert soil. The recovery of this material from construction sites is noble. It’s not recycling. Soil reuse objectives vary from site to site, depending on local issues. In terms of landscaping, the field of possibilities is immense. Our aim is to develop a circular economy for excavated soil, so that we can design useful developments that contribute to local dynamics,” explains Laurent Mogno,

Artificial hills on the ECT Moissy-Cramayel site The town hall of Moissy-Cramayel (Seine-et-Marne) will soon be inaugurating a park created entirely from recycled soil. What to do with soil excavated from construction sites ? In a few weeks’ time, the town hall of Moissy-Cramayel (Seine-et-Marne) will inaugurate a park created entirely from recycled soil. In twenty years or more, as the zones are depleted, the gypsum galleries exploited by Placo in the Ile-de-France region will be filled with the same soil. It makes good sense to use the spoil excavated from all construction sites to fill in or backfill. This

Stirring up shovels and earth By Sibylle Vincendon – April 12, 2019 at 11:24 am [Each week, a story about towns, villages and urban issues. Today, the fate of tons of soil moved to plant construction sites. Large volumes. It’s the story of a guy who digs a hole. A second guy comes along and asks, “And where are you going to put the dirt?” And the first guy replies, “In another hole.” On any building or public works site, the hole is the first operation to be carried out. But as there’s no question of digging a second one

[The ECT company reuses this land to transform denatured areas into urban parks or agricultural fields. March 27, 2019, an article by Giulette Gamberini in the TRIBUNE The enormous volumes involved make this one of the main environmental challenges of the Greater Paris project: how can the tens of millions of tonnes of excavated soil generated by the works – 40 million tonnes for the Grand Paris Express project alone – be recycled? For ECT, this challenge is above all an opportunity. Active in this field since the 1970s, it has developed a solution that goes beyond that traditionally proposed

Radiant sunshine for schoolchildren from Moissy-Cramayel (77) who took part in a day of discovery of the future “Parc de l’Arboretum”. This park was created by ECT using inert soil from construction sites in the Paris region. With the enthusiastic help of the ECT teams, the children planted the fruit trees in the orchard and some of the ornamental trees along the main pathway. The future “Parc de l’arboretum” consists of 2 embankment mounds currently managed by ECT. It will offer Moissy-Cramayel residents : walks, an arboretum of local and exotic species, an orchard, a pond, a “street-workout” area. People

France 2’s February 14, 2019 TV newscast retraces the route taken to reclaim excavated soil from the Grand Paris Express. ECT uses some of the soil from the site to secure  gypsum quarries in the Paris region. Step 1: Laboratory analysis. Stage 2: quarry inspections.  During the report, ECT’s plant technician checks the quality of the soil in front of the camera. It provides olfactory and visual control. Thank you Guillaume for  this great demonstration!