The Balti Municipal Council requested the Parliament and the Government to intervene and help solve the problem of waste. The landfill to which the household waste collected in the town is taken is managed by a sanitation company that charges exaggerated taxes, IPN reports.
The landfill was managed by the municipality until 2012, when the waste collection service was conceded to a private partner. In 2014, it was ceded to another firm. After three years of the signing of the contract, the firm started to often violate the contractual obligations. Towards the end of 2017, it unilaterally suspended the waste collection process and the municipality had to take emergency measures to collect the waste, it is said in the Council’s statement.
From the beginning of 2018, invoking the right to manage the landfill, the firm has increasingly restricted access to this. Taxes are levied daily at a time when the payments should be made at the end of each month. Also, the municipality is requested to fully pay in advance for waste storage.
The councilors of Balti consider a solution is to identity another waste storage place and need the consent of the central administration for the purpose.
