Everyone will pay for the neighbor’s mistake. Big increases in bills in blocks are coming

As he warns, in 2024 not only utility fees for individual residents will increase, but also those imposed on communities and housing cooperatives. Therefore, not only will there be increases in electricity, gas, water and heating bills, but also rents and other fees included in them, including garbage. The portal also warns against increasing waste segregation control. Penalties for errors are high and all residents will pay.

Sorting waste is an obligation. Will there be higher penalties?

For several years, there has been an increasing emphasis on waste segregation among both owners of single-family houses and residents of apartment blocks. The goal, as he emphasizes, is to “reduce the amount of municipal waste landfilled.” The obligation to sort waste applies to everyone and there is considerable pressure to increase waste recycling and segregation. Poland, like other European Union countries, is obliged to achieve an appropriate level of reduction of mixed waste, i.e. waste that is not disposed of and ends up in landfills, and to increase the level of recycling. By 2025, according to the assumption, it should amount to 55%. However, it is already known that achieving this level will be difficult. The pressure is increasing and, as a result, the controls and impositions are increasing.

What can be the penalty for incorrect waste sorting? Everyone will pay

Interia gives an example of a housing community from Imielin in Warsaw. In the spring of 2023, she received a fine of PLN 90,000. PLN for improper waste segregation. It is enough that glass bottles arrive in a plastic bag for the collecting company to report improper segregation and not empty the bag. If the situation continues, penalties will be imposed on the community. Sometimes all residents will pay for the mistake, carelessness or intentional action of one neighbor.

How much? Fines, as in the case of the Warsaw community, may amount to several dozen thousand zlotys. Residents will, in turn, feel the impact of rising garbage fees. These range from 100 to even 400 percent and increase either in a given month or for several or several months until a positive effect is achieved. – As a community, we received a letter from the Department of Public Utilities, which we classified incorrectly, stating that continuing in this way will result in higher costs. The warning states that failure to segregate waste will result in a 100% increase in garbage fees. Fortunately, things calmed down and everything was fine in December – says one of the residents of Naramowice in Poznań in an interview with Interia.