CD&V Brussels launches ‘Plan Clean Streets’ campaign
On the Muntplein, the Brussels CD has today launched its campaign on public cleanliness. ‘Plan Clean Streets’ contains fifteen action points with the Christian Democrats who want to make the streets of Brussels less dirty. “It’s high time we cleaned up our city’s reputation.”
For the launch of the campaign, Flemish Minister of Brussels Benjamin Dalle and Brussels MP Bianca Debaets set up a ‘pop-up shop’ called ‘Brukea’ on Muntplein, together with some other party members. Passers-by could “dumping” cloaked interior items.
“This morning, two volunteers started driving a van through Brussels, looking for illegal dumping,” explains Debaets. “Unfortunately, it didn’t take them too long to collect about an entire household item, although there was also a lot of other dumped waste on the streets that was less suitable for sale in a pop-up store.”
With the ‘Clean Streets Plan’ CD&V Brussels will attack the illegal dumping and litter problem. made the party fifteen action points. Dalle: “The improvement of the supply to recycling centers of the import of deposits on plastic bottles and cans is also discussed, for example. From the use of underground waste containers, so that the waste no longer remains lying around on the street.”
“Our action plan is therefore quite broad, but we also believe that there is a lot to improve on in the Brussels street scene. It is high time that we brush up on the reputation of our city,” said the Flemish minister.
Community service
According to CD&V, the action plan focuses on awareness-raising and prevention, but also on repression. “Of course we don’t want elements of a witch hunt that has already chewed gum on the street, but we do not want to hear it,” say Dalle and Debaets. the responsibility of all of us.”
The duo believes that large and hard-learned hatch hoppers should receive community service in recycling centers. This is already happening in Sint-Truiden, where hatch dumpers are given community service instead of a GAS fine.