LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON MALVESI SOLID WASTES In 1995 Comurhex announced: "up until now, nothing [that is to say no waste] left the plant, except concentrate drums that had been washed and crushed. (...) We are now developing discharges to the outside" [CLES 8.ii.95]. The solid wastes include: -- sludge from decantation (see above); -- containers for concentrates: from 1975 to 1989, the drums that could not be reused were washed, crushed, and deposited in the Margnac and Peny mines (Haute-Vienne) (see Haute-Vienne) or, since 1982, sent to a foundry at Fos-sur-Mer (Bouches-du Rhone) for melting [Cogema 91a]. Since 1989, all the nonreusable drums are carried to a Fos foundry. Reusable drums are transported to a mine near Lodève [Bloch 96; CLES 28.vi.95]; -- crumbling waste, gravel, and other wastes that are "weakly contaminated and not subject to decontamination". In 1996, according to Andra, these wastes were stored "with all the uncontaminated waste from the plant" in a trench located on the waste rock slope of the old sulfur mine [Andra 96]; -- ferrous materials: the "storage boxes" are sent after decontamination to a scrap metal dealer; -- filters: what is their destination? [CLES 28.vi.95]; -- technological waste in general: "technological waste that is slightly radioactive through contamination with uranium are decontaminated by chemical means in a specialized workshop" [Andra 96]. And the secondary waste? |