Each in their field, they will be talked about and especially about their projects, innovations or struggles, during the year 2022. 20 minutes has chosen to highlight four figures from Gironde who are active in the fields of health, town planning, waste reduction and the fight against pesticides.
- Fabien Guillemot’s company, Poietis, works for the medicine of tomorrow.
The pessacaise start-up Poietis, specialized in 3D printing of biological tissues was founded in 2014. With 35 to 40 employees today, it has just reached a milestone at the end of 2021 with the installation of its technology in the cell therapy laboratory at the APHM of Marseille. “We give hospitals the ability to produce tissue that can be implanted in patients,” explains founder Fabien Guillemot. Clinical trials will be conducted in the first quarter of 2022 to validate the process in a dozen patients who have wounds that require surgery, as an alternative to autografting. The process, called Poieskin, has the advantage of being able to create tissues from 4 cm2 of the patient’s skin only to produce 40 cm 2 or more. “Poieskin will help reduce the problems of pain and scar contractions observed with autografts”, hopes Fabien Guillemot. Other university hospitals have already shown interest and he hopes that the device will have proven itself for applications on humans within five years.
- Frédéric Petit’s company, Les Détritivores, collects and recycles bio-waste
The Detritivores collect bio-waste from canteens and restaurants in Gironde to transform it into compost. By 2024, when regulations will force communities to treat this organic waste, Frédéric Petit, head of Detritivores, plans to ramp up his activity. The voluntary supply terminals, installed in partnership with the metropolis in Eysines and Bouliac are giving excellent results and others will emerge, particularly in Mérignac. A composting platform will be installed on the Arcachon Basin in 2022 to limit journeys to Bordeaux and transport by barges is planned there from 2023. The Détritivores are also carrying out a project of imitation leather from fruit remains, in connection with Agen agropole. They also plan to pack a kilo of local compost in bags, which will be sold in committed grocery stores. “In 2021, we collected 800 tonnes and in 2022 we want to double these tonnages and quadruple our turnover,” points out Frédéric Petit.
- The establishment run by Valérie Lasek is transforming the city
Valérie Lasek, conductor the Euratlantique public institution in charge of the national interest operation which has been transforming the cities of Bordeaux, Bègles and Floirac for ten years. “We are halfway through this project, one of the most important in France (apart from the Île de France),” she points out. Significant deliveries will take place in 2022 and 2023 and should show residents part of the road traveled. “There is a distorting effect of the site compared to the finished project,” explains the director. The first settlements in the Belvédère district, at the outlet of the Saint-Jean bridge, will take place in 2022 (end of 2022 or beginning of 2023 for the central square of the district), the Amédée Saint Germain park, near the Saint-Jean station should also take place. be delivered during the year. The Place d’Armagnac is almost finished and the finalization of the development of the banks near the Meca is announced for the summer of 2022. The opening of the Jardin de l’Ars on which 500 trees will be planted by February, should take place in spring 2022. In early 2022, we should also know (finally) the fate of the fire station on the right bank, after the relocation of the military.
- Valérie Murat continues her fight against pesticides in viticulture
In 2022, the fight of the anti-pesticides activist Valérie Murat, spokesperson for the Toxic Alert association, will be to raise another 75,000 euros, after the launch of a fund of support. On November 10, 2021, the Libourne Court of Appeal ordered it to pay 125,000 euros in damages to the Interprofession for a “faulty denigration” of Bordeaux wines. In question, the publication of analyzes of “high environmental quality” wines with pesticide residues. She must pay this amount in order to appeal the decision. “All our time and energy are devoted to finding this sum,” explains Valérie Murat. I can no longer carry out the activities of the association, and we can no longer do analyzes with the laboratories with which we worked. “The appeal lapses in two years, so time is running out for the spokesperson for the association who intends to continue her fight against her” 26 ultra-powerful opponents, wine-growing professionals and lords “.