Next week the Departmental Board of Montevideo will vote on the bill announced by the mayor Carolina Cosse on the rate for single-use containers of large companies in the department.
Since December of last year the bill has been in the Departmental Board, next Friday it will enter the Environment Commission and then it will be put to a vote next week in plenary. Meanwhile, the National Party accuses the project of the leftist party of being a collector, who would achieve the votes only with his bench.
Numbers that do not close
The director of Environmental Development, Guillermo Moncecchiestablished during the commission session that the collection of the Municipality of Montevideo would be 5 million dollars “with a ceiling that could be 10 or 12 million dollars, depending on the number of tons that are recovered.”
In that sense, Moncecchi assured that, if there were greater predisposition of companies to recover waste, the numbers would drop immediately and the cost for the municipality would be much lower. The leader clarified that the Municipality spends approximately 78 million dollars annually on waste management.
On the other hand, an audit of the Inter-American Development Bank established that only 5% of waste is recycled, something that authorities consider “very low,” while 38% of total residential waste can be recycled. With this, the leader regretted that “the objective of 30% recovery that is provided for in the decree of the Ministry of Environment (for this year)”.
Regarding the responsibility of companies, Moncecchi explained that “the waste of packaging which must be managed in a segregated manner, under the responsibility of the manufacturer-importer sector, today their destination is the collection systems managed by the IM, when they do not go to inappropriate destinations such as streams, beaches or public spaces. This causes the IM to incur additional investments and expenses.”
For this reason, the intention of the Municipality is to “create a price that allows transfer management costs of product packaging waste currently assumed by the IM to companies, as well as manufacturers and importers of trays, boxes, films and other materials. of packaging that make up distribution or marketing”.
A fair tax
To silence the complaints of the opposition, the leader clarified that “they will only charge what the Municipality has actually spent today” and that the cost for the companies does not compete with the Voucher Planthe one intended to implement a system of classification plants, which is being reformulated among the Chamber of Industries and the municipalities.
“All data provided will be public and completely transparent, both the analyzes carried out by the IM to determine the costs and the sworn statements made by the companies (about how much they pour into the market). This is as a way of ensuring to all parties the absolute proportionality between what it costs and what is being paid,” Moncecchi explained.
Source: Ambito
