PILOT PROJECT IN THE RADUN AND RUDIN AREA
In the area of the city of Kaštela, the city's municipal utility company Zeleno i modro has launched a pilot project for the collection of bio-waste, in which brown bins are first distributed in the areas of Radun and Rudin, and then collection will begin. In this way, they will test the system, educate citizens and see how everything will work in practice. After analyzing the results, they plan to expand this service to the entire Kaštela area.
The principle of the division itself is carried out as before, which means that employees of the company Zeleno i modro deliver the containers to home addresses, every working day, from Monday to Friday in the morning. Users who receive the containers must sign a record of receipt when they receive them. Users who receive the containers for bio-waste will receive detailed instructions on when and how they should dispose of their bio-waste.
The distribution of bio-waste bins began at the end of last year, as we писали , and will subsequently receive notification of when they can dispose of their waste in brown bins, which will then be collected by ZiM employees.
- So far, we have distributed approximately 400 brown containers for bio-waste in the Radun and Rudine areas. The containers were purchased by the city of Kaštela with funding from the Environmental Protection Fund and the EU. After we complete the distribution in Radun and Rudine, we will continue to distribute the containers in other local committees. The planned duration of the pilot collection project in Radun and Rudine is June 1st to December 31st, and then we will continue with the collection of bio-waste in the entire area of the city of Kaštela - told us the director of Zeleno i modro Alen Lučić and explained how the collection of bio-waste will work.
- The collection of bio-waste from the brown bin is planned once a week, instead of one collection of mixed municipal waste, which means that mixed municipal waste and bio-waste will be collected once a week, because bio-waste accounts for as much as 50 percent of mixed municipal waste. It is very important that citizens are educated about what goes and what does not go in the brown bin - said Lučić and added.
- Trivially speaking, leftovers from lunch preparation go in the brown bin, and certainly not leftovers from lunch - he emphasized.
Let us recall, in brown bin goes:
green waste, fruit and vegetable scraps, fruit and vegetable peels, flowers, coffee grounds, dry leaves, sawdust, straw and hay, small amounts of grass and hedge clippings, twigs and tree bark,
In the brown bin you shouldn't go at all:
meat, bones, cooked vegetables, dairy products, liquid food scraps, diseased plants, baby and adult diapers, animal feces, walnut leaves, wood that has been painted or varnished, biowaste that has been in contact with oil, gasoline, oil-based and protective paints, and pesticides.
Let's also add that proper separation of biowaste will reduce the amount of mixed waste, and predictions are that separation of biowaste will increase the amount of separately collected waste to over 40 percent and bring it closer to the set goal of 50 percent.
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