Councilor Jeroen Huizing (CDA) could not entirely explain the surprise among the council members. “We often do this by sending out press releases as soon as council proposals on major topics become public.” Moreover, the message also clearly stated that the council still has to decide on it, the councilor continued. “And that has also been adopted in the press. We can now decide here to no longer send press releases in advance, but that seems unwise to me.”
The municipal council will therefore make a decision about the introduction of diftar in two weeks. Points of interest that emerged on Tuesday evening included the fact that it should be easy for people with a medical certificate to obtain an exceptional position, since they have more residual waste.
Lars Oebeles (PvdA): “Could we, for example, make the diaper containers that will be available for parents with young children also accessible to people with a medical indication?” Council members also wanted to know more about supervision and enforcement, both to prevent waste dumping in to prevent nature and to maintain the quality of, for example, PMD waste.
Additional supervision would also be good at the recycling center, said Henk Mulder (BBC2014). “We already see that the amount of residual waste offered here is twice as high as in recycling centers in other municipalities.” The councilor promised to strengthen enforcement, control and supervision at the entrance.
If the council agrees to the plan, the municipality has a year to prepare for the introduction of diftar. According to Huizing, that will work. “Especially because we can make use of other municipalities that have already taken this step. What we see elsewhere is that there is a lot of resistance initially, but that resistance disappears soon afterwards. The change in waste policy is not at all big as people sometimes expect.”