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A French value chain, hand-picked partners

The Easy to Change service would not work alone. To deliver an integrated, traceable and compliant service, we rely on two solid national industrial partners and on a network of regional partners rooted in the social and solidarity economy.

  • 100% French value chain, from collection to material recycling
  • Full waste-transfer-note traceability at every step
  • Regional network through Adapted Enterprises and integration enterprises
Industrial partners Regional network
Industrial partners

The two structural players of our value chain

Material recycling and national logistics are entrusted to two reference partners, chosen for their industrial expertise and long-term commitment.

Material recycling

MéGO

The partner that turns cigarette butts into reusable plastic granulate

MéGO operates the first French plant for material recycling of cigarette butts, based in Brittany. The cellulose acetate filter is washed, dried and transformed into plastic granulate used to produce street furniture, insulation panels and various technical objects. Tobacco and ashes are composted or recovered separately.

For Easy to Change, MéGO is the key link that makes the material recycling promise demonstrable, not theoretical: every tonne of cigarette butts collected goes through their plant and becomes a documented secondary material.

  • First French plant dedicated to material recycling of cigarette butts
  • Recycled plastic granulate delivered to street-furniture manufacturers
  • Network of regional partners engaged in adapted employment and integration
National logistics

clikeco

The logistics operator providing collection across France

clikeco is the French national logistics operator that handles the regular removal of cigarette butts collected in sealed containers installed at your sites. Present across continental France, clikeco provides optimised pooled logistics — one transport for 50 ashtrays carries a footprint far lower than 50 individual transports. Equivalent licensed logistics partners are activated in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland to cover Easy to Change's continental European footprint.

clikeco also secures the containers for transport (hazardous waste class) and issues the waste transfer notes you receive every quarter for your CSRD, Ecovadis and ISO 14001 audits.

  • National coverage: all of continental France
  • Pooled transport to optimise logistics footprint
  • Quarterly waste transfer note issued automatically for your audits
Regional partners

The local operational network

Depending on territories and configurations, Easy to Change mobilises several regional players for collection, secondary sorting or awareness work. They all share one thing in common: they are rooted in the social and solidarity economy, with a strong component of adapted employment or integration.

Sorting & out-of-home recycling

Lemon Tri

5 regions, local roots, national ambition

Lemon Tri offers sorting, recycling and reuse solutions for all out-of-home spaces (offices, shops, campuses, hotels, corporate restaurants). The network operates regional hubs in Île-de-France, Northern France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

Their particularity: creating solidarity-based jobs by supporting people in professional transition. An operational promise aligned with Easy to Change's.

30+ corporate waste streams recycling

Ostreya

Île-de-France, Centre-Val de Loire, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Ostreya is a recycling player that handles more than 30 types of professional waste — including cigarette butts — with a multi-stream approach designed for companies wanting a single point of contact. The group is present in Île-de-France (Gennevilliers, Colombes, Wissous sites), in Centre-Val de Loire via its Adapted Enterprise Ostreya Adapt, and in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region via its long-standing subsidiary B&P Environnement based in Marseille.

Ostreya works exclusively with French recyclers, documents every stream to 200 grams, and counts more than 320 employees including a large share of people with disabilities.

National SSE network

Réseau Elise

Nearly 50 sites in France, Adapted and integration enterprises

The Elise network is one of the broadest French networks for the collection and recycling of office waste, with about fifty sites covering almost all of continental France. Each Elise site is an Adapted Enterprise or an integration enterprise, which allows our clients to combine the benefit of recycling with that of responsible procurement (disability employment quota, reserved markets).

Beyond recycling, Elise also offers sorting awareness, waste audits and CSR animations — additional services we mobilise according to our clients' needs.

Our choice

Why we work with these partners

Because no one does everything, and does it well. The job of cigarette butt collection breaks down into three distinct links: making robust hardware (our work in Picardie), regular collection logistics (clikeco), and final treatment (MéGO for material recycling, or energy recovery units). Wanting to do everything in-house means committing to doing two out of three links badly.

Because traceability cannot be faked. Entrusting treatment to a recognised industrial partner means guaranteeing a waste transfer note that will withstand any Ecovadis, ISO 14001 or CSRD audit. An opaque subcontractor is a subcontractor who cannot provide you with the documents on the day the statutory auditor or CSR auditor asks for them.

Because local roots are non-negotiable. In high-density zones (Île-de-France, regional metropolises), partners like Lemon Tri, Ostreya or Elise allow us to shorten distances, streamline collection rounds, and support structures that employ people far from the labour market. It is a value chain where every link has its economic and social logic.

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