Bio-wastes - The challenge of valorization: To give a second life to our bio-wastes; 3 questions to Clotilde Pinet, responsible of organic valorization at the Fnade; How Europe is managing its wastes; To favour short circuits; Interview of Anne Tremier, Research director at the INRAE, director of the Opaale research unit; From the plate to the fields; There is a resource in our bins; Lamotte-Beuvron assaults its bio-wastes; 3 questions to Stephan Martinez, founder of Moulinot; Ile-de-France will multiply by five its capacity to methanize bio-wastes by 2025

This set of article addresses various issues related with the development of bio-waste valorization in France and in Europe. While interviews of experts discuss various aspects (bio-waste management in France, organization of bio-waste collection, sorting and valorization, necessity of a good management of bio-wastes to make them a true resource, role of food scraps), it presents the context (definition of bio-wastes, legal framework, resource assessment, environmental and agronomic stakes), proposes an overview of the situation of waste management in Europe (production and recycling), outlines the role of local initiatives in favour of short circuits between waste production and valorisation, evokes the activity of Agrivalor which organises and manages bio-waste collection and treatment in Alsace, evokes the activity of a start-up which designed an innovative and connected equipment for bio-waste collection and treatment in Hauts-de-Seine, evokes an operation undertaken in Lamotte-Beuvron for bio-waste collection and sorting, and sheds a light on the perspective of development of bio-waste valorization in Ile-de-France