The Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning's new proposal for a Regulation on the compulsory municipal public utility service for the collection of municipal waste (URKO) significantly interferes with good practices in the management of waste materials (scrap) for humanitarian purposes. The changes will also significantly reduce the revenues that various associations and foundations have the opportunity to raise from the sale of useful waste materials to help the most vulnerable.
This seems to me to be inhumane and ungentlemanly. We cannot take measures against citizens. Instead, we should help the weakest.
The amendments to the regulation take away the right of philanthropic organisations to collect paper, plastics and the like for humanitarian purposes. The main crux of the problem with the proposed regulation is that, in Articles 3 and 4, it stipulates that such waste must be left exclusively to municipal companies and public service providers. In other words, this could mean that people who collect corks, old paper, electronic devices, white goods and take them to the companies mentioned would no longer get any money for doing so. In short, it will be a big blow for many people, for example, parents of disabled people, who have so far been able to get money in this way to help them buy disability aids.
I propose that the Ministry amend these articles so that the collection of waste materials and raw materials for humanitarian purposes will continue to be possible. I believe that the regulation would prevent the collection of raw materials to support and help deprived groups, individuals in society and would 'not only make it impossible to raise funds to help through materials that people no longer need, but it would also destroy opportunities for education and awareness-raising about the importance of collecting waste materials.