ECONOMY

The Buenos Aires government proposes fining people who take garbage out of containers

The project bears the signature of the current Minister of Public Space and Urban Hygiene and elected Deputy Head of Government, Clara Muzzio. The fine could exceed one million pesos in cases where "the violation is committed by a legal entity", that is, urban recyclers' organizations, from which the collected materials will also be confiscated.

  • 27/10/2023 • 21:51

The Government of the City of Buenos Aires intensifies before the Buenos Aires Legislature the sanction of a project to establish new financial fines for people who remove waste from containers deployed on public roads, in an initiative that generated the rejection of urban recyclers cooperatives who demanded the reversal of the proposal. The text bears the signature of the current Minister of Public Space and Urban Hygiene and elected Deputy Head of Government, Clara Muzzio, was entered into the Legislature 20 days ago, in the middle of the electoral campaign, so it did not have a debate in committee until this Friday when the ruling party signed the opinion to be discussed in the session next Thursday. The project seeks to increase the value of the fines established in twenty of the current Misdemeanor Regime that governs the City of Buenos Aires, which sanction infractions committed against the environment, public space and urban hygiene; as well as incorporating the obligation to carry out green repair actions. The proposal was analyzed at the meeting of the Justice Commission of the Legislature, chaired by radical deputy Inés Parry, where a delegation of recyclers cooperatives that work formally in the City of Buenos Aires was present to express their disagreement. , among them, Amanecer de los Cartoneros, Madreselvas and El Álamo In this framework, the Executive included increases in penalties for residents who take garbage to the containers outside the permitted hours, between 7 and 9 p.m., or for those who do not comply with the separation at source of household waste, carrying the fine at values ranging from 14,446 to 144,660 pesos. And it added a new article to the Misdemeanor Regime that punishes people who manipulate "containers or disposal points for urban solid waste" installed on public roads with financial penalties of up to 101,262 pesos. In addition, the fine could exceed one million pesos in cases where "the violation is committed by a legal entity", that is, urban recyclers' organizations, which will also have the collected materials seized and forced to take action. of "green repair".