Hotline 71 Air quality: good. Data from hours In some cases, the motivation is the fear of increased fees. Other motivating factors include the need to set a good example for children and the belief that waste segregation is a sensible and necessary activity in the long run. There were many justifications in our survey. Some residents, for example, believe that since they pay for rubbish collection, its segregation should be handled by someone else. The magistrate's statement: Do we really pay much?
The most in Europe? The most in Poland? Is it possible to declare that we will not sort? This myth has been alive for a long time, despite the fact that all waste collection vehicles that drive around Wroclaw have a single chamber and collect only one fraction.
And this is changing. Waste collection companies will check if waste is segregated properly. If it turns out that we actually fail to do this, an orange sticker will appear on the container with the words 'Eko Alarm', which means we are in trouble — the information about the lack of segregation will be sent to the department of taxes and fees, where proceedings will start. As a result, the rubbish collection fee may increase significantly — fortunately only for those months in which the lack of segregation was ascertained.
The survey carried out by Ekosystem, a municipal waste collection company, shows that we find it most difficult to sort bio-waste. In our survey, many people argue that collecting them at home is a nuisance and involves rotting, unpleasant smells and mouldy waste.
Therefore, they prefer throwing them into the mixed waste bin. The survey also shows that education is still needed because we do not know what to do with some waste. Here are your votes:. It is a pressurised container, and I do not know if I can regard it as plastic. When asked about the ways of motivating others to segregate, the Wroclaw residents who are themselves convinced about the idea suggested education and social campaigns. Other tips included financial incentives or fines, the use of stickers with the code of each apartment and the monitoring of bin sheds.
