Prague is ready for Christmas garbage collection. Trees do not belong in the bins
Christmas and New Year are, of course, the most demanding time for a waste management company. After all, just how much paper is thrown away after unpacking the gifts… “The collection program is designed so that the containers are not overfilled and there is no clutter around them,” Radim Mana, spokesman for the Prague City Hall, said in a press release.
As for the export of bins with mixed waste, from Monday to New Year’s Eve it will take place as standard as on normal days. For sorted waste, collection will be strengthened in critical areas. On the first day of January, you will not meet garbage trucks on the streets of the capital, with a few exceptions. After the New Year, normal pick-up plans will return with a possible one-day delay.
“Prague pickup companies are well prepared for the annual onslaught. I believe that the high standard of cleanliness in the capital will be maintained thanks to the strengthened collection regime even during the holidays, when the mixed and separate containers will find themselves under the greatest pressure, “said the mayor’s deputy Petr Hlubuček (United Forces for Prague, STAN).
Artificial trees belong to the collection yard
At the same time as the Christmas and New Year’s collection, the Prague services also draw attention to the throwing out of trees, which definitely do not belong in waste sorting containers or in “classic” black bins. It significantly reduces their capacity.
“If you have a publicly accessible rubbish bin or mixed waste container, the trees can be freely placed next to them, in other cases (apartment and family buildings or caged containers) we ask for the Christmas trees to be placed at the nearest sorted waste containers,” the city spokesman appeals. society per capita.
According to the Prague Services, people should throw out trees best the day before the removal of municipal waste, so that spruces and eateries do not roll in the streets for an unnecessarily long time. “The trees are loaded into municipal waste trucks on normal collection days and will be removed throughout January and February. The exception applies to artificial trees. If the tree has reached the end of its useful life, it definitely does not belong in a container for sorted or mixed waste, but in a collection yard, ”informs Mana.