Dechetterie

A Dechetterie is the French name for a Waste Collection Centre, as known in England as the local council rubbish tip.

In France they are normally extremely well organised and easy to use. Usually you drive your car onto a raised area therefore making the “tipping” part very easy, particularly if you use a tipping trailer as you can reverse right up to the edge to tip your load.

We have found our local Dechetterie to be very helpful and will guide you as to where to put the items, and sometimes help to unload depending on how busy they are.

Do try to avoid mixed loads unless you are prepared to sort it out when you arrive as they are quite strict as to what is allowed in the various containers and it can be time consuming moving the car around the area.

There are large categorised skips for all your rubbish and below is the English-French translations which may help when unloading:

French	English	French	English
Bois	Wood	Emcombrants	Mattresses etc
Ferrailles	Scrap Metal	Dechets Verts	Green Waste
Papier	Paper	Verres	Glass
Huilles	Oil	D.M.S.	Spray Cans etc
Gravats	Rubble	Plastiques	Plastic
Cartons	Cardboard Boxes	Batterie	Batteries

Most Dechetteries are open from 9am until 12 noon and again 1.30pm until 6pm including Saturdays. Although most do have several mornings where they are closed for emptying and replacing. Sundays they are closed all day.