Waste Prague: Where does the sorted waste that remains at the containers end?
For almost the last two years, human behavior has significantly altered coronavirus in all respects. People work much more at home and reduce their social contacts. This also applies to the purchase of goods. Instead of going to crowded shopping malls, they shop through e-shops and have goods imported or home purchased.
This also brings with it a number of packages, boxes or bags. The topic of waste has recently been addressed mainly in connection with the planned decree, which changes the prices for collection, which is criticized mainly by the opposition from the ranks of the ODS and the YES movement. Deputy Mayor Petr Hlubuček (STAN), who also has waste management in the environment, pointed out that the coronavirus period has brought with it a much larger volume of waste, which ends up in colored containers for sorted waste.
The topic of waste accumulation also returns every year with the approaching Christmas, when shopping in bulk. At home, people are left with boxes of electronics and other goods that they need to get rid of. Unfortunately, it doesn’t happen that not everyone steps on them before being thrown into the container. He can then calmly slowly take up the entire volume of the container and in fact it thwarts the efforts of others to sort waste.
Where do trash bags go?
When the containers are full, people often hurry up and they leave garbage bags at the bins with someone already taking care of it. The waste will disappear, but the effort to sort recyclable waste will be in vain. Deputy Hlubuček pointed out that when people leave sorted waste lying around containers in this way, no one will sort it into plastic or paper for them. The waste that wraps around the colored containers hides a specialized company paid from the city budget. “They’re throwing around a truck and taking it to the incinerator,” stated the square.
The places are cleaned after the containers are exported and it costs 60 million crowns a year. So rightly so, people who have nowhere to throw their waste should leave it at home or look for an empty container. So if you’re serious about recycling.
In addition to Deputy Hlubuček, the company Pražské služby, which is in charge of waste collection, encourages people not only to treat waste wisely and responsibly to the environment during the Christmas holidays. It was created i a campaign to draw attention to the trampling of beverage packaging, PET bottles or paper boxes. “Even the largest underground container can be taken out of service when its opening is blocked by a plug in the form of a bag full of unstamped PET bottlesand. The others cannot use the container and leave the waste somewhere nearby, “said company spokesman Radim Mana.
This created a series of spots in collaboration with actor Vašek Matějovský, which will gradually appear on social networks with the slogan “Step on it”. “The aim of the campaign was to point out that littering is not about ecology, but about good manners,” says the actor.