PINK » Amendment of waste resolution

At the last session of the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw, the resolution has been adopted on amending the resolution on the collection of municipal waste from property owners on which the residents do not live, and municipal waste is generated, in which uninhabited properties are excluded from the municipal waste collection system.

The exemption does not apply to mixed-purpose properties – which are partly properties on which the residents do not live – it will still be possible to use the municipal waste collection system for those properties.

The resolution will enter into force on 1 August 2020. Until then, owners of properties on which residents do not live, and municipal waste is generated, will have to sign a contract with the operator for the collection of waste. They should also document the use of waste collection services through a contract concluded with the city or operator collecting municipal waste, entered in the register of regulated activities.

The justification for adopting such a resolution was to be abnormally low rates for the collection of waste from uninhabited real estate, which does not cover the actual costs of servicing this real estate. Due to the fact that the city subsidized the waste disposal of uninhabited properties, it was decided to exclude these properties from the municipal system.

The consequence of the resolution will be that from 1 August 2020, municipal services will not collect waste from commercial real estate. The owners/managers of such facilities will be required to sign a contract with the selected operator for commercial waste collection.

Link to the draft of the adopted resolution: https://bip.warszawa.pl/NR/rdonlyres/F333D7FA-D425-459B-884D-6D211824E72E/1523766/990_druk.pdf. For this time, the resolution is awaiting publication in the Official Journal of the Mazovian Voivodeship.