France, the garbage dump of Geneva's construction sites (Swiss Press Local 2025, by Marc Guéniat) - Swiss Press Award
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Local
2025
Marc Guéniat
A cramped and densely populated area marked by an acute housing crisis, Geneva must build for its population. Construction sites abound. These developments require digging and moving earth underground. Due to lack of space and a lack of political and popular will, millions of tons of these excavated materials are exported by truck to France, sometimes to landfills more than 100 km away.
