Persons who live in private houses and legal entities that bring litter to waste platforms situated near apartment buildings are liable to fines. The new regulations concerning sanitarian and ensuring of cleanness in the municipality of Chisinau ban this and encourage the persons to sign contracts for the collection and disposal of solid waste with the local waste managing enterprise. The dwellers who are bothered with such acts by private individuals and legal entities can file a complaint to the police with photo and video evidence and the City Hall and district head’s offices will impose fines, IPN reports.
Vasile Efros, head of the Territorial Development and Cleanup Section of the General Public Amenities Division, has told IPN that there are two categories of persons who throw litter at waste platforms near apartment buildings. These are persons who didn’t sign contracts for the collection of solid waste with the cleanup company “Autosalubritate” or persons who signed contracts, but are inpatient for the waste trucks to come, given that the waste there is collected weekly, and take the litter to waste platforms themselves. There are also persons who signed contracts with “Autosalubritate” for the collection of solid waste only, but they take other types of liter, such as dry grass and leaves, to waste platforms.
Vasile Efros noted the operator responsible for waste management is obliged to go to private houses and sign waste collection contracts with dwellers. Most of the times, such a practice is not effective. In Romania, for example, the waste tax is included in the local tax. “There is a problem here as the platforms placed in years of blocks consist of a particular number of containers, for a particular volume of waste that is generated,” stated the functionary. If more waste is taken there, the platforms become full and three is litter everywhere.
The new regulations concerning sanitarian and ensuring of cleanness in the municipality of Chisinau provide that each private user cannot take the waste elsewhere or they will be fined after a complaint is submitted to the police, accompanied by video and photo proofs. The fine for private individuals ranges from 900 lei to 1,800 lei or these can be given 20 to 60 hours of community service. Legal entities face a fine of 3,000 lei to 9,000 lei.
“Autosalubritate” director Dumitru Vulpe stated for IPN that the company has signed waste collection contracts with 16,085 private individuals and 8,415 legal entities of Chisinau. Private individuals pay 33 lei a month for this service that is provided once a week.
