Waste collection Prague: Every owner has the right to a brown bin for free
All you have to do is throw your forehead or peels out of the kitchen, not into the ordinary one, but into the BIO ashtray, and the ecological solution is in the world. Vegetable waste turns into useful compost. Huge amounts of mixed municipal waste will be reduced. In addition, the city uses compost to maintain the greenery. According to municipal statistics, vegetable waste accounts for up to 20% of the contents of ordinary bins.
One-fifth of the garbage that could still be used flies through the incinerator chimney. In addition, their collection costs Praguers money and the exhaust gases of garbage trucks pollute the air. “Bio-waste forms a significant part of municipal waste, its consistent sorting and sorting of other waste can reduce the capacity of collection funds and thus reduce the amount of the fee,” informs Blesk, a spokesman for the capital. m Prague Vít Hofman. Thus, the logic “the more I sort, the less I pay” applies.
How to get a “brown friend”?
According to last November’s data, the municipality is depositing plant waste in a brown cube over 16,000 Prague households. The trash can get any property that the owner requests either through online formor visit collection company customer centerwhere they will discuss and arrange everything with him. Only the last bill will be needed. Members of homeowners’ associations, housing associations and others first agree. An ordinary tenant must request an order from the BIO Ashtray of the owner of the building or acting on behalf of the owner.
In addition, the city provides garbage cans and pickups for free. “Only the delivery and removal of the container is charged if its distance reaches 15 m from the place where the collection containers are permanently delivered. “ adds Vít Hofman. When the bin is placed in a public place or used by six or more households, it must be fitted with a lock on the lid. Both the lock and the two keys will also be given to the owner of the building free of charge from the collection company.
If the content of the BIO bin is a pollution of waste that does not belong there, the contents of the container will not be exported during regular collection and the export of the container will be provided by the owner of the building at his own expense. “The frequency of biowaste collection depends on the design and is carried out once a week or once every two weeks,” informs Vít Hofman.
What belongs in the bio-bin?
All grass, weed leaves and brooms fit here. Remains of fruit, vegetables and plants can be thrown out of the kitchen by Praguers. It even includes tea bags and coffee grounds. You can also throw soil from pots, turf with soil, twigs, wood chips from branches, sawdust, shavings, bark, hay, straw.
The new Rocket large-capacity composting plant operates in the Prague Market Square. It handles 215 liters of waste per day. David Winter
Waste collection in the streets of Prague
Author: ICT operator