The Bucharest City Hall no longer wants to allow residents to use the garbage chutes inside apartment buildings in Romania’s capital by 2025. The Bucharest General Council has adopted a draft resolution on the capital’s sanitation strategy, which also includes this measure.

“The room at the ground floor will be the only one that will remain in use, and this will be arranged accordingly,” according to the draft resolution, quoted by local Agerpres.

Moreover, Bucharest neighborhoods will also need to have separate waste collections ‘island’ by 2025. They will be made of platforms with containers for separate waste collection. These spaces will be properly delimited and marked. Only those served by these areas will have access to the platforms, according to the draft resolution.

Some blocks in Bucharest have internal chutes, allowing residents to throw garbage on each floor. The garbage gets to the ground floor, where it is picked up regularly by garbage companies. It is uncertain what will happen to the chutes already built inside Bucharest blocks of flats, most of which are hard to remove, as they are included in the block's structure.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com