Communauté de communes du Sud Territoire, Territoire de Belfort, France

What was done

The Communauté de communes du Sud Territoire (CCST), in the Territoire de Belfort (France), ran a hen-distribution scheme through its household-waste service between 2013 and 2016. Volunteer households — in communes including Delle and Beaucourt — were given two hens each to reduce the volume of biowaste they set out for collection.

What a replicating authority should know

• A multi-year run is normal and worthwhile. The CCST sustained the scheme across roughly four years (2013–2016) rather than treating it as a one-off — consistent with the pattern that the model's value compounds when repeated.
• The waste service is a natural home for the scheme. Run directly by the intercommunal household-waste service, the operation sat with the team that already owns collection costs and has the clearest incentive to cut them.
• Two hens per volunteer household is the standard unit. As in nearly every programme surveyed, the CCST distributed hens in pairs to self-selecting volunteer households.

Honest reading

Outcome recorded as success as a multi-year scheme that ran as intended; the consulted source records the programme and its dates rather than a measured diverted tonnage, so the waste outcome is not quantified here. The case adds geographic and institutional breadth — an eastern-France intercommunality running the model as a standing waste-service activity.