The Parla City Council has given the green light in the municipal Plenary to the establishment of the fee for the collection and recycling of urban solid waste, known as the garbage fee, which will include significant reductions for vulnerable individuals and families, as well as bonuses for good practices.
Following the mandate of the European Union, state regulations, and the waste strategy 2017-2024 of the Community of Madrid, the city council has initially approved the municipal ordinance that regulates the new fee for the collection and recycling of urban solid waste, which was only opposed by the PP and Vox.
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«This is a fee that is not intended for revenue collection as it will only cover the cost of waste collection and subsequent treatment,» explained the Councilor for Finance, Andrés Correa, during the Plenary, where he emphasized that the fee will take «into account the situation of the most vulnerable individuals and families.»
In this regard, the fiscal ordinance distinguishes between residential uses and other cadastral uses, establishing a fixed fee related to the fixed costs derived from the provision of the service (in any case 84 euros), to which a variable fee is added based on objective parameters:
Regarding residential use, the fee considers factors such as the surface area and the number of registered inhabitants in the dwelling, with reductions of up to 90% based on the economic capacity of the taxpayers.
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Likewise, a reduced rate is established for all taxpayers in situations of social exclusion risk (recipients of Minimum Insertion Income and recipients of Minimum Vital Income), using the Public Indicator of Multiple Effects for calculation.
Regarding other uses, the variable fee is based on the surface area of the property and the type of waste generated.
Additionally, there are bonuses of 10% on the fee for good practices such as using recycling points (visiting the recycling point 6 times a year), collecting pruning waste (disposing of 6 m3/year), and implementing composting or selective collection pilot projects.
