We all share responsability

The Communauté d’Agglomération du Pays de Gex is responsible for collecting, recycling and processing waste for the 27 towns and villages in the Pays de Gex. It works with SIVALOR to sort packaging, recover energy from household waste and recycle garden waste. Suez is in charge of bin collection.

Who’s in charge of what?

Pays de Gex Agglo provides and maintains bins and local recycling bins, manages recycling centres, collects waste and manages billing. It is responsible for these services with procurement contracts and outsourced public services.

SIVALOR is in charge of sorting waste, recovering energy from household waste at the energy recovery facility in Valserhône and processing garden waste at the compost facilities in Versonnex and Péron.

How does waste management work in the Pays de Gex ?

Pays de Gex Agglo :

• organises and coordinates refuse collection
• manages billing for its service
• conducts waste recycling and reduction projects to raise awareness
• provides a service for the community: relationship with residents

SUEZ (service provider)

• collects waste
• provides services for the council

SIVALOR (regional recycling syndicate made up of 163 towns and villages in Ain and Haute-Savoie)

• manages facilities
• transfers, sorts and recycles waste
• conducts waste recycling and reduction projects to raise awareness

Key figures

(from the annual report about public service quality – 2023)

• 61,950 tons of waste were managed and recycled, the equivalent of 578kg per resident per year, including:
• 171.5kg of household waste
• 227kg at recycling centres
• 96.4kg of waste sorting
• 84kg of “other” waste