Paris launched a compost support program in 2010. Parisians who want to set up composting systems in their apartment building courtyards are invited to fill out an application asking the city to approve their proposal. If the candidate has met certain qualifications, and obtained the agreement of the building’s superintendent and the support of at least 10 residents/participants, the city will sign off on the compost project. Collective compost bins on the ground floor of buildings. Moreover, in 2012, the City, together with the pioneering ‘master-composter’ Jean-Jacques Fasquel, delivered a training session for city-dwellers on how to install and use a community compost facilities in urban neighbourhoods, and which products can go into the compost. Today, several 600-litre wooden compost containers and around 100 “master-composters” like Jean-Jacques Fasquel to train local authorities’ staff and the public are present in the city. In particular, there are three types of compost bins suitable for different types of homes but also for schools: collective compost bins on the ground floor of buildings, neighborhood compost bins, and individual compost bins (vermicomposters). In 2015, approximately 300 tons of waste were avoided thanks to collective composting on 422 collective composting sites and six neighbourhood compost bins. In 2016, 256 condominiums, 186 schools and 35 administrative sites committed to composting their waste.