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The Urban Cleanliness Management Service
The urban waste management department of the town hall (or community of communes) is responsible for the cleanliness of the town and all its components. Its role within the city is all the more important given the size of the agglomeration. In order to carry out all the tasks assigned to it, the waste management department is subject to harsh and strict management, but also to the vagaries of weather and social conditions. Let's take a look at the objectives, techniques and management of the cleaning department.
What are the objectives of the urban cleaning service?
Urban cleaning services are essential to maintaining a pleasant, liveable environment. It has a number of environmental objectives.
1. Clean up public places to protect residents
The city's sanitation department collects all garbage and bulky items from public areas to prevent diseases caused by the accumulation of garbage, as well as visual and olfactory pollution. This sanitation service covers all public areas, including sidewalks, public toilets, avenues, gardens, squares and public parks. The department's operatives also dispose of green waste found in urban areas (dead leaves, shrub cuttings, grass and lawn clippings, etc.).
2. Protecting the environment and the territory
The waste management department also has a very important objective: to preserve the environment in which we live. Not only to protect ourselves, but also to protect the future of our descendants and offer them a liveable environment.
To achieve this, the service also carries out information and prevention campaigns in households (flyers in letterboxes) and at the waste collection center. On site, the department's teams encourage recycling and waste sorting. They encourage private individuals to dispose of their garbage in the appropriate skips (paper, wood, plastic, diapers, metal, fabric, glass, etc.).
As part of its drive to improve environmental protection techniques, the waste management department is also constantly on the lookout for new cleaning techniques, tools and products.
3. Making cities clean and improving the quality of life of their inhabitants
The final aim of this department is to make cities clean and liveable. To this end, the teams maintain public facilities such as benches, signs, sidewalks, lampposts, gutters, graffiti walls and public garbage cans. They are also in charge of beautifying the area with the green spaces department.
To keep the city clean, they use a variety of cleaning equipment such as sidewalk vacuum cleaners, green waste blowers and trucks.
What are the tasks carried out by the urban cleaning service?
The local authority takes on the following tasks to keep the city clean:
- Sweeping (manual or mechanical) of pavements and streets
- Washing benches, public toilets, etc.
- Removal of inappropriate graffiti
- Collection of all dog waste
- Weed control in public gardens and parks
- Collection of all waste without exception (household or non-household waste)
- Sewer cleaning
How is the management of urban cleanliness going?
With these countless tasks, the urban cleaning department needs to set up a precise management system. A few rules apply to the planning of tasks to manage everything:
Prioritizing roads and traffic lanes: the department manages the lanes first, to ensure smooth traffic flow. The city is divided into several zones, so the busiest areas are treated first (downtown, suburban areas, constant traffic, etc.).
Site frequentation :after traffic lanes, the service manages the city according to the level of frequentation. This includes markets, shopping areas, industrial or craft zones, public spaces and historic monuments.
The Urban Cleaning Department works all year round, Monday to Friday, from morning to afternoon. That's why it organizes its tasks according to the season. In winter, for example, road clearing is the priority.
