The draft of what will be the new municipal ordinance for waste management and cleaning of public spaces will go on public display this week for 40 days, during which time residents and entities will be able to present allegations. A regulation that comes to update the existing one, which dates back to 2001, and which incorporates issues such as the implementation of the fifth container, the ban on smoking on the beach, the implementation of a return system for plastic and glass containers, or the possibility of creating a rate that allows the implementation of payment systems for waste generation, so that those who pay more garbage generated.
Regarding this last point, the draft of the new ordinance details that the City hall “will establish, within the legally established period, a rate or, where appropriate, a non-tax, specific, differentiated and non-deficit public patrimonial benefit, which allows the implementation of payment systems for generation and that reflects the real, direct or indirect cost, of waste collection, transport and treatment operations, including the surveillance of these operations and the maintenance and post-closure surveillance of landfills, awareness and communication campaigns, as well as the income derived from the application of extended responsibility of the producer, of the sale of materials and of energy”. A system that will also be applicable to food distribution and restaurant companies with the aim of reducing waste.
Another novelty has to do with the large producers of waste, restaurants and shops, which are required to separate waste at source, inside the establishment. These businesses will have six months to present a Waste Prevention and Management Plan, specifying the type of waste that is expected to be generated, estimated volumes, measures adopted to minimize its generation, measures to guarantee its separation at source, as well as collection system to be used. In addition, it is noted that the City Council will link the granting of licenses and permits to the presentation of the aforementioned plan.
The regulatory framework also offers the possibility that some companies can get out of the system, self-regulating their own waste and not having to be under the City Council system.
return system
With regard to the creation of a return system so that “within the framework of the applicable regulations, the City Council may implement separate collections of light packaging through the return and return system, in accordance with the determinations established in the instrument regulate it”.
This draft also establishes issues such as the prohibition of single-use plastics in public events, in which it also regulates that the organizer must present, together with the authorization request, a plan for the prevention and management of waste that can be generate during the celebration of the event, in which the collection measures to be implemented are also detailed. The organizing entity will be responsible for the public space in which the event has been held.
Regarding the cleanliness of public spaces and with regard to prohibitions and duties, it is prohibited to dirty public space in any way, whether by throwing chewing gum, pipes, cigarettes or the like, including private lots, for whose cleaning it is responsible. to their owners, who, according to the draft ordinance, will have the obligation to proceed to the closing of the same.
sanctions
With the new norm, the figure of the inspectors is reinforced, who are given the category of agent of the authority at the time of control and imposition of sanctions if necessary. Fines that rise to the legal maximum possible and that range from
