Photo by Joseph Winters/GristNieuwjaer is part of a worldwide movement known in French as zéro déchet, or zero waste. The national plan requires regions to develop their own sub-plans and asks small-scale waste management authorities to “enable the implementation” of France’s bigger-picture waste agenda. An advertisement for Roubaix Zéro Déchet: “In 2023, become a zero-waste family! Ogborn is now all-in on zero waste, thanks in large part to the training she received from Roubaix Zéro Déchet. And Otimi, the Roubaix resident who leads a family of 10, could barely find the words in English to express what Roubaix Zéro Déchet has meant to her.