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The best fruit trees to plant in your French garden
Columnist Sue Adams outlines the perks of growing your own
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France green news: cigarette recycling, water reserves and ski resort closure
A startup harvests cellulose from cigarette filters, quarries in Brittany are repurposed for water storage, and an Alpine village votes to shut its ski resort amid financial and climate pressures.
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Are the volcanoes in central France still active?
Volcanoes shadow major city in central France
Crit’air sticker price reduces
Other cities are set to do likewise
Prices for the pollution rating Crit’air sticker for vehicles has been reduced from €4.18 to €3.62. Covering six categories from Green for electric vehicles to Grey for vehicles with Euro 2 pollution ratings, the stickers allow councils to ban vehicles during pollution peaks.
Paris has the most restrictive measures, a weekday ban on Grey and non-classified cars, while Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Strasbourg and Toulouse have other options. Foreign vehicles also need a sticker. See tinyurl.com/y86vpjhd.