While the Agence Régionale de Santé d’Ile-de-France [Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency] hasn’t decided on the utility or not to disinfect urban space, several cities in Ile-de-France have taken actions and started this week (and for some, the past week) to disinfect their streets.
Several cities in Seine-Saint-Denis have started to disinfect streets, starting by Le Bourget, last week. Among the places disinfected twice a week: the railway station neighborhood, by nursing homes, health centers and stores and some of the urban furniture such as bus shelters.
Same initiative in Rosny with the weekly disinfection in Neuilly-Plaisance earlier this week and soon in Montreuil. But many are those who care of the impact of such disinfection on the environment.
So, in terms of products, the city of Rosny waters down a disinfectant called Agrigem (used in organic agriculture), while Neuilly-Plaisance has decided to spray two products considered as “non-toxic” by the city: a disinfectant with chlorine watered down at 25% on some areas and a detergent on others. The city of Montreuil is thinking about the possibility to use steam or heat to disinfect urban spaces.
Big cleaning in Hauts-de-Seine streets started in Suresnes, where the operation will be renewed every week. Benches, bins, handrails, playgrounds and other spaces and urban furniture have been disinfected. In Levallois-Perret, the city has gone for a disinfectant based on pine tree from Landes said to be non-toxic for humans.
In Colombes, sidewalks are cleaned with water and disinfectant, like in Plessis-Robinson that also disinfected urban furniture in addition to sidewalks and main roads.
In Clamart, bus shelters and bins are disinfected twice a week, like the city of Puteaux spraying a sanitizing solution over bush shelters, bins and public benches; and in Asnières-sur-Seine bus shelters are disinfected as well.
In Yvelines too, several cities swing into actions against coronavirus with a disinfection of the public space campaign started in Saint-Germain-en-Laye next to the railway station and the market square, in Fourqueux and in Chatou where the city cleans twice a week with bleach schools open to welcome health caregivers’ children, nursing homes and zones around the city center stores and urban furniture.
In Montesson, the disinfection of sidewalks, bus shelters, benches and areas by stores and phamarcies started on April 1st.
Same call in Val d’Oise with street, sidewalk and urban furniture disinfection campaign in Montmorency around pharmacies and food stores as well as in Herblay-sur-Seine.
