Prawo.pl reminds us that the EU adopted Directive 2018/81 several years ago, amending the Waste Framework Directive of 2008. It set the zero hour for used textiles at 2025.
"This waste does not have to be collected from residents' homes. Although the commune can of course expand the fractions collected 'at source'. But I do not know of a commune that would make such an expansion. The obligation to collect textiles separately results from the Act of 13 September 1996 on maintaining cleanliness and order in communes (hereinafter referred to as: ucpg)" – points out Mateusz Karciarz, a lawyer from the Law Office of Legal Advisers Zygmunt Jerzmanowski i Wspólnicy, in Prawo.pl.
Today, as Karol Wójcik, chairman of the Program Council of the Chamber of Municipal Industry, says on the Prawo.pl website, PSZOK receives only trace amounts of clothes or shoes, the vast majority of which ends up in mixed waste.
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