ECT boosts the re-use of its inert soil.
The company provides communities with undeveloped landscaping using excavated soil. And since 2019, it has initiated a process to manufacture a 100% recycled fertile substrate: Urbafertil.
This pure recycling product is made from a mixture of inert soil and green waste compost. It’s a pertinent illustration of the circular economy of soil from construction and civil engineering projects for the greening of urban spaces. With well-known benefits for :
- climate,
- the creation of cool islands,
- soil permeability for rainwater,
- and for biodiversity.
This technosol is a technical, ecological and economical alternative to the use and transportation of topsoil.
In the Bois de Vincennes, on the Esplanade Saint-Louis, the city of Paris used this Urbafertil approach to create a technosol with complex specifications.
The media turned out in force to appreciate this in situ production.
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Chaleur urbaine, report 3/5, “Un technosol fertile sur le parvis du château de Vincennes”, a dossier by Laurent Miguet, published June 26, 2020.
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“Inert soil to green the surroundings of the Château de Vincennes”, by F.B published on May 27, 2020.
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“Des substrats fertiles nésés de matériaux inertes”, issue no. 157 of June and July 2020
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“A royal construction site for Urbafertil”, magazine no. 51, July-August 2020
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“A responsible solution for greening the city”, article dated June 13, 2020