Key findings of the study
1. Waste sorting is now a widely accepted norm, but the ease with which it can be carried out remains strongly conditioned by the living environment, with people living in houses and sparsely populated areas enjoying much more favorable material conditions than apartment-dwellers.
2. Doubts about waste sorting persist despite their decline, and are increasingly focused on used clothing, revealing the effects of fast fashion and the current limits of textile collection schemes, particularly among young people.
3. Biowaste sorting is still struggling to take root, particularly in urban areas, due to a lack of information and visible solutions, even though the practice is widely perceived as beneficial for the environment and easily integrated into daily life.
4. The ecological motivation for sorting is eroding slightly, reflecting a form of disenchantment with the perceived effectiveness of individual gestures in a context dominated by more pressing economic and geopolitical concerns.
5. The French are in favor of support rather than constraint, rejecting economic instruments such as incentive fees or TGAP, while expressing an expectation of education, transparency and information on the part of local authorities.
