But the government doesn't know how to make them more «fair»
Vice Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko believes that changes should be made to the procedure for calculating tariffs for the removal of municipal solid waste by making its more «fair». But it is not clear when the Russians will wait for this.
During the government hour in the State Duma, Sergei Leonov (LDPR) recalled that sometimes citizens receive «double or even triple receipts for garbage collection.» “A person cannot simultaneously litter in his apartment and in a country house, the owner of which he is!” he said.
Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko (she oversees environmental issues, agriculture and real estate turnover) said that the government had prepared “several draft resolutions that would eliminate these problems” and allow for a “more fair approach to calculating utility bills for municipal solid waste management” (TKO)» But when these documents can be accepted is unknown.
“Don't you think that most of the problems in the area of charging fees for MSW lie in the abuse by regional operators of the right to commercial accounting based on established standards, including economically absurd charges per square meter, as in the Samara or Moscow regions? Isn’t it time to abandon the standards and count waste by weight through the weight control of garbage trucks at the landfill?” asked Mikhail Matveev (KPRF).
Ms. Abramchenko admitted that she personally supports the transition to the calculation of the actual accumulation of MSW. “We specifically checked what is happening in some regions: garbage is being transported bypassing the built weight control sites, and you should be fined for this, as well as for dumping garbage in an unspecified place,” she said.
“As for the calculation (standards for payment for the removal of MSW. -) — from a square meter, from the area or the number of residents — today it is the right of the regions to decide which approach to choose,” she recalled.
11 subjects of the Russian Federation have chosen for self-calculation from the area of housing; according to her, these are, as a rule, regions that are faced with pendulum migration, such as the Krasnodar Territory and the Moscow Region, and “if you choose one of the accrual methods rigidly, then Andrey Yuryevich Vorobyov (Governor of the Moscow Region. – ), which does not have registered residents, and the dachas of Muscovites are located in the region.”
“The problem is acute, but I would not like to introduce any single requirement at the federal level yet, this could provoke even more problems ”, said Ms. Abramchenko.