Day-to-day commitment of the council teams
Vannes town council sweeps up approximately 1,500 cubic metres of street litter annually. The cleaning service, consisting of 31 persons, works every day of the year in order to keep the town clean.
Thirty-one council employees, plus a seasonal back up team in July and August, are responsible for cleaning public areas. Using equipment appropriate to the various sites within the town, Vannes’ services maintain 200 km of streets, 400 km of pavements and 9 hectares of squares on a daily basis. In 2005, a budget of €1,023,000 was allocated to the town in order to keep it clean.
A few figures
■ Over 1,000 cubic metres of recycled water used to clean the streets.
■ 1,500 cubic metres per year of swept waste.
■ 700 tons of sand swept up from roads.
■ 200 tons of leaves swept up in the autumn.
■ 60 tons of rubbish cleaned up from markets and public events.
■ 23 public toilets to keep clean.
■ 432 homes visited for rodent control.
■ 301 pigeons caught in 2005 (between 1,500 and 2,000 pigeons in the town of Vannes).
■ 7 dog mess tongs dispensers.
■ 13 plastic bag dispensers.
■ 40,000 dog mess tongs and 10,000 plastic bags are used annually.
■ 7 dog pits filled with sand.
■ Four 5 to 10 square metre dog sites.
■ Four 100 to 150 square metre dog areas
■ 1 free graffiti removal service.
■ 180 interventions annually on private premises.
Equipment resources
1 washing truck,
2 vans,
4 vacuum machines,
1 dumper truck,
2 pavement sweepers.
The cleaning service is operational seven days a week, with two passes daily in the town and district centres (Cliscouët, Kercado, Ménimur and the station). Seasonal (port area) and exceptional operations are frequently organized. The equipment resources are appropriate to the width of the roads and paths in order to speed up the work: cycle track sweepers, pavement sweepers, town centre sweepers and washing truck. All the streets and roads outside the town centre are swept monthly.
The various types of cleaning
Cleaning of cycle tracks: 1 pass every three months using a sweeper.
Cleaning of the station and shopping centres: 6 days a week, twice a day (morning and afternoon).
Road cleaning: Once a month.
Cleaning of public toilets: the town has 23 public toilets.
The toilet in the Place Maurice Marchais (photo) has an attendant. It is cleaned by 2 cleaners from 7 am to 7 pm, 6 days a week. Twice a day, and on Sundays for the toilets in the town centre.
Three projects are currently under study:
■ The courts,
■ Rue Francis Decker,
■ Rue du Capitaine Jude.
Cleaning of beaches and the port
■ Conleau: daily (beach + pool),
■ Port: quays daily
(twice a day during the summer season, in the morning and between 1 pm and 7 pm). Cleaning of the pool once a week, or after every period of heavy rain,
■ Cleaning of the area surrounding the port.