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DECO Proteste claims to change the rate for urban solid waste, proposing that it cease to be indexed to what each consumer pays for water.
“Do the Portuguese know that the more water they spend, the more garbage they pay?” Asks the consumer defense association, which relaunched, this Thursday, a campaign to change the rate, a complaint that has been going on for three years.
DECO argues that the management of urban solid waste (MSW), which remains the same “in most municipalities”, penalizes citizens “more environmentally responsible” and does not promote recycling or waste reduction.
The fault, he argues, is that there is no obligation to change the current model, added to the “lack of funds in the vast majority of municipalities,” which depend on rates to finance themselves.
The rate is calculated based on the cubic meters of water consumed, but DECO points out that this “has no correlation with the waste of each household nor does it value those who recycle their waste.”
“Garbage is not water” is the slogan of the campaign, which defends the principle of “whoever pollutes pays”, that is, whoever produces more waste pays more than the MSW tax.
DECO wants Parliament to change the billing model and make sure the new rule is applied.
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