Bernard Chevassus-au-Louis, President of Humanité et Biodiversité: “The desire to care for nature is a sensitive experience, just like the ability to appreciate and recognize the history of a plant, insect or bird. It’s all about developing a culture of nature”. Everyone is entitled to define “Biodiversity, a sensitive, cultural and social experience”.

This week, France Inter’s “La Terre au Carré” program is broadcasting a series of reports by journalist Juliette Prouteau. This documentary mini-series focuses on excavated soil from the Grand Paris Express construction sites. The January 14 report focuses on polluted excavated soil. That’s why the journalist visited our Center for the Biological Treatment of Soil Impacted by Hydrocarbons, located in La Courneuve (93). During the report, Jérôme Malherbe, site manager, and Laurent Mogno, President of ECT, explain how the center biologically treats polluted soil. An overview of the activities of France’s first fully enclosed center of this type, in several

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Less fuel used for a smaller carbon footprint. ECT equips itself with hybrid technology earthmovers. This is particularly true of Komatsu’s HB365 excavator. Komatsu decided to interview an ECT employee as part of its promotional film.

How is ECT helping to preserve biodiversity? On our development sites, our objectives of sustainable development and safeguarding biodiversity are expressed through the preservation of plant and animal species, the planting of local species and the optimized and concerted management of rainwater. ECT relies on an ecosystem of design offices and ecologists to structure the implementation of avoidance, reduction and compensation strategies, after analyzing the impact on biodiversity. These strategies lead to the creation of ecological corridors, sanctuaries on our sites and the movement of species to these protected areas.