Czech Republic tightens the mandatory classification of waste

On 12 June, Czech Parliamentarians began discussing the terms of the 'On waste' revision to tighten the mandatory classification of organic waste and food waste.

Waste after sorting will be used for fertilizer processing.

According to a reporter in Prague, Czech people have long been accustomed to sorting waste according to the color of trash bins - the blue color for green paper, for glass and colored bottles. gold for plastic packaging.

In Czech, garbage cans are differentiated by color.(Photo: Quang Vinh / Vietnam +)

The Czech environmental agency is expected to add brown bins for organic waste from 2015. These bins are for kitchen waste, dipped tea bags, coffee grounds and other organic waste.

It is calculated that nearly half of the waste that Czechs throw into mixed waste bins is bio-waste and this is a big waste.

Currently, according to the initiative of the Czech Ministry of Environmental Protection, biological waste is being classified at about 1,000 Czech villages. These villages are provided with special waste bins and bio-waste storage equipment.

From now until 2020 the Czech Republic is expected to spend 462 million euros for the target.

A spokesman for the Czech Ministry of Environmental Protection Jaromir Mangartom said the ministry estimates that the amount of collected waste could increase from 700,000 tons to 2 million tons.

The collected biological waste will be transferred to organic fertilizer production plants and then used in Czech fields.

Czech social organizations have long been promoting the composting of organic fertilizers at home and have demonstrated that household composting provides more environmental benefits than substance containers. biological waste.