Ms. Liu, who pays the property fee and garbage removal freight on time every month, never expected that after throwing away a vase in the community, she would soon receive a message from the housekeeper:
"The municipal department only collects household garbage, and this flower pot needs to be paid by the owner and disposed of by the property company."
The housekeeper also sent the charging standards: 8 yuan/piece for small flower pots and jars, 20 yuan/piece for medium-sized flower pots and jars, 30 yuan/piece for waste cat climbing frames, 15 yuan/piece for waste chairs, 125 yuan/cubic meter for waste mattresses, large dolls, sofas, cabinets, etc.
This information instantly "hard controlled" Ms. Liu, and a series of question marks emerged: "Why do you have to charge extra for throwing a flower pot property?" ”
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Focus 1:
Is the extra charge reasonable?
Ms. Liu's community is Vanke · Tianhui, which is located in the memory section of the eastern suburbs.
According to her description, there are two fixed monthly fees related to garbage and sanitation: since the beginning of this year, Vanke Service has started to pay for various services to promote "waste debris".
Vanke Tianhui's charging standard
Ms. Liu's first question was whether the additional fee was reasonable.
The property manager of Vanke · Tianhui project confirmed the existence of the paid service of "waste debris" in an interview, and said that since the introduction of fees this year, the owner has placed orders for this service more than 100 times.
According to the person, the main reason for this measure is that
Vanke · Tianhui is very special, with a volume of 300,000 square meters, but also relatively complex business formats, covering residences, apartments, office buildings, commercial streets, etc.
"Counting from the earliest delivery of the residential part, the delivery cycle of the entire community lasted for almost three years. It just so happens that the apartment and office buildings are at the peak of renting, which makes the behavior of old tables, old mattresses and other construction debris encroaching on fire escapes from time to time in the past. ”
The person in charge said that in the past, it was necessary to contact a special third-party service platform to deal with the above-mentioned construction waste, but the increasingly serious problem of community waste management made Vanke · Tianhui propose paid services.
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Focus 2:
What types of garbage are not covered by municipal services
Most families who have experience in renovation remember that when decorating, they will pay for the construction slag disposal according to the number of square meters, which is usually handled by the property and a professional agency. The Chengdu Municipal Domestic Waste Management Regulations, issued in 2020, also made this type of waste more explicit, stating that "it is forbidden to mix industrial solid waste, hazardous waste, landscaping waste, etc. into domestic waste". At the same time, "large and integrated domestic garbage such as waste furniture, or large domestic garbage that needs to be split and reprocessed" also needs to be recycled by "renewable resource recycling enterprises, domestic waste sorting service units, etc.", or put into designated points.
In other words, none of the above-mentioned garbage is within the scope of municipal services.
Gou Qiang, secretary-general of Chengdu Property Management Association, said that this kind of garbage can usually be handed over to the property for unified disposal, or it can be handled by the owners themselves by contacting professional institutions, but this process is "difficult to supervise", so most of the communities will be in the property contract or management agreement is clear, that is, the property company will deal with it uniformly, and the owner will pay. The special feature of Vanke · Tianhui's case is that the common garbage charging standards have become clearer.
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Cases in other cities
"Producer pays" is a general principle of domestic waste disposal in the world.
In the "Notice on Accelerating the Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Urban Environmental Infrastructure" issued in 2022, it is proposed that subsequently, domestic waste disposal fees will be levied successively across the country, such as Shengtaicang City in Jiangsu Province, Chenzhou City in Hunan Province, Ruzhou City in Henan Province, etc.
In Chengdu, the reporter learned that in addition to Vanke · Tianhui, many communities do not have specific charging standards, such as Longfor, China Resources and other brand service communities, most of them are not charged for large domestic waste, including other communities served by Vanke, only Tianhui has a special charge breakdown; However, if it is construction waste, most properties will contact a professional platform cooperated with a third party to deal with it for a fee.
According to the "Fuzhou Daily", Fuzhou has built a unified large-scale garbage treatment platform, and in June 2022, "e Fuzhou" launched a large-scale garbage recycling platform, which can place an order for the collection and transportation of large garbage such as old furniture with one click, and there are professionals to deal with it at the door, and the door-to-door fee is 69 yuan, and the transportation and treatment fee for a piece of furniture ranges from 35 yuan to more than 150 yuan. As the first city in the country to realize the integration of bulky garbage delivery, transportation and disposal, Fuzhou also put forward the "Fuzhou Municipal Domestic Waste Classification Management Regulations", discarding bulky garbage at will and refusing to correct, the urban management law enforcement department will impose a fine of more than 50 yuan and less than 200 yuan on individuals, and a fine of more than 5,000 yuan and less than 50,000 yuan and less than 50,000 yuan on the unit. In this way, "resource utilization and harmless disposal" can be realized.
A few days ago, Wuhou City Management visited the urban resource sorting center in Wuhou District, where it can be seen that this kind of garbage is usually strictly sorted, and then according to different characteristics such as size, composition, quality, etc., "tailor-made" regeneration plan, turning garbage into different types of renewable resources, such as bricks, tiles, concrete, prefabricated slabs, etc., are crushed and turned into recycled aggregates, which are used as raw materials for building materials and put into use again; Wood products are crushed and briquetted as biomass fuels for incineration to generate electricity; Light combustibles, such as foam, are processed into alternative fuels for the production of cement...... This technology can make the utilization rate of this waste reach 90%, so as to truly achieve low-carbon green development.
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Now, are you willing to pay for throwing out the trash?