Municipal waste collection in Prague will be most expensive in housing estates
A family of four will pay almost 1,700 extra crowns. “Medium-volume” bins will increase by about half and only users of the smallest containers (70 and 80 liters), usually living in small family houses, can look forward to a cheaper pick-up compared to today. The price adjustment is based on new legislation, which a part of the municipality will “project” into its decrees on the local fee by the end of this year at the latest. The logic of the new system is that, unlike the current practice, each liter of disposed waste costs the same, regardless of the size of the collection container and the frequency of collection.
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The opposition ODS has issued a municipal coalition for not publishing the draft decree or the new price list based on it, and is preparing to approve it only at the December council. The head of the control committee, Alexander Udženija (ODS), called it a “nice” Christmas present. “Throughout the year, the municipality announces on its website that it will inform about the planned changes to the fee in the course of 2021. So far, however, no one in the coalition has told Praguers that it is going to increase the price of waste collection from January. Even our efforts at the last council discussed everything, ended in the lack of interest of coalition politicians, “says Udženija.
It is based on the Waste Act
However, coalition prices reiterate that the new waste collection is not based on the initiative of the capital, but on the Waste Act. In September, Mayor Zdeněk Hřib (Pirates) called for a change in the interpretation of the legal amendment, which is under the responsibility of the Ministry of Finance. And according to Hřib’s deputy Petr Hlubuček (United Forces / STAN), the metropolis delayed the preparation of the decree precisely because it tried for many months to verify the state about the “social unfairness” of the new, which counts on the area price per liter. “In the current system, we take into account the real costs of collection as much as possible in the amount of fees. That is why people using the largest containers in housing estates pay less for waste per liter than those who have their own small containers, “said Hlubuček at the end of the summer.
His view at the level of the opposition representative and at the same time MP Patrik Nacher (YES), whose party pushed for a change in national legislation. “The fact that people in the housing estate live in more densely populated areas can be perceived as a disadvantage in a way, but there are partial advantages. Among other things, it provides more waste for removal in one place and its transport is therefore cheaper. That should be taken into account, “added Nacher. Negotiations between Prague and several ministries on the interpretation of the new rules have not yet borne “fruit”. From the first of January, the rate of 50 pennies per liter of waste should start to apply in the capital, while the new law allows up to crowns per liter. Other municipalities are facing the same situation as Prague. Some decided to subsidize waste collection more, others to make it more expensive. For example, even in the lower poorer Sokolov, families expect an increase of about a hundred crowns a month.
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According to Petr Hlubuček, in addition, Praguers living in large apartment buildings can save money in the area by ordering free “brown” bio-waste bins in this area. “The bio-ingredient makes up 30-40 percent of the content of ordinary mixed waste. In other words, people can replace a third of black mixed waste bins with brown bio-waste bins for which they will pay nothing. In the same way, citizens do not pay for the collection of containers for sorted waste, “the deputy mayor pointed out.
The head of the ODS embassy club, Zdeněk Zajíček, compared the offer in the case of a housing estate to a weak patch. “Because the brown bin will be permanently overcrowded, citizens will have no choice but to throw biowaste in a large container as before, and this will not save any money or the environment. ” , but in housing estates or apartment buildings in the center of Prague, it can be pretty unbreathable, they don’t talk about a lot of rats, “he warned.