At the municipal council in Molenbeek last week, a motion was put on the table to guarantee two waste collection rounds for the white and orange bags per week.
The motion, proposed by the radical left PTB/PVDA party, pointed out that a large proportion of residents of the Brussels-Capital Region and the municipality of Molenbeek do not live in housing adapted to store numerous white or orange bins for at least one week.
The municipality's high population density combined with insufficient space, no balconies and no communal bin areas would "significantly worsen living households' conditions and hygiene" and could even lead to an increase in fly-tipping.
Therefore, the motion calls for a second collection of the orange bag every week, and also asks that the twice-weekly collections of the white rubbish bag be maintained.
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Currently, Molenbeek is not among the communes in which collections are reduced to once a week following the Regional Waste Reform, but in the long run, Minister of Cleanliness Alain Maron wants to apply this to every commune.
Additionally, the motion called for an "ambitious and detailed plan for the development of underground containers" where people can deposit their sorted waste at any time of the day.
Now, these proposals will be sent to the Brussels regional government and members of the Brussels parliament.
