Landfill Getliņi there are no changes in the structure of waste after the deposit system introduced on February 1 this year, admitted in an interview Getliņi Eco Chairman of the Board Imants Stirāns.
“We have absolutely no changes yet. We would like to feel, because the impurity of glass in bio-waste is very high, which causes problems, “said Stirāns.
He also does not yet predict when the change would be felt.
Stirāns also added that the structure of waste has changed in recent years, especially after the increasingly active sorting of waste.
“It’s easy with waste – it’s affected by the economic situation. In the crisis of 2008, the economy collapsed by 30% and the amount of unsorted waste also decreased by exactly 30%. Now the trend is a little different – there are no more people left, the covid pandemic also affected the amount of waste. The worse we live, the less waste. The standard of living is not increasing, it is stable, therefore the amount of waste is not increasing, “said Stirāns.
Getliņi Eco The manager emphasized that separate waste collection helps to reduce waste.
“Operators are working on separate collection. It works well. Bio-waste alone is not, and will not be, a development because the legislation on this issue is not in order. There is a need for a fundamental change of approach and a restructuring of costs. “
“Collecting, transporting and recycling bio-waste is more expensive than unsorted waste, so there is no incentive for people to sort bio-waste.”
“They are being punished – the more I sort bio-waste, the more I pay. If we want to stimulate it, then we have to artificially reduce the price for biological waste collection, but increase it for unsorted waste collection, “said Stirāns.
Also, according to him, the pandemic has not had a significant impact on the amount of waste, only the number of face masks in waste has increased. “There was no face mask before the pandemic. But in general, it would not be said that the proportion between bio-waste, packaging and inert waste has changed. The basic positions are more or less stable, »Stirāns admitted.
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