Residents of Islamabad Will Now Have to Pay a Cleaning Tax

[Kabira]

The Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (IMC) has decided to charge its citizens a ‘cleaning tax’ to lift trash bags from outside their homes.

Islamabad Mayor, Sheikh Ansar Aziz, has approved the tax today, which will be applicable across the city.

So from now on, every household in Islamabad will be charged a fixed monthly fee for the collection of garbage.

The residents of government quarters and bungalows will pay between Rs. 300 and Rs. 1000 while the fee for private-owned houses will range from Rs. 400 to Rs. 4000, depending on the size of the house.
https://propakistani.pk/2019/10/08/residents-of-islamabad-will-now-have-to-pay-a-cleaning-tax/

 

[Trango Towers]

Good.
Charge all shops in bazaars as well. But clean the city

 

[Hiraa]

We have this in Lahore. Housing societies charge for taking garbage.

 

[war&peace]

Here in Sweden, this facility is provided free of cost by the commune because they know how to use the trash. It is in fact a valuable raw material for recycling, district heating, and bio fuel.
But we as citizens, sort all our trash in categories

1. colored glass
2. glass
3. soft plastic
4. hard plastic
5. biodegradable material
6. Packing material
7. magazines and newspaper
8. metal (cans etc)
9. household trash (burnable material)
10. Batteries, Cells
11. Electric bulbs. tube lights etc

So we do the hardwork but then the communes ensures it to regularly take away the trash and empty the bins.

And it does not end here, for all medical refuse like syringes, needles, medicine (expired) or throw away stuff like bandages etc, we are provided special plastic bags from the nearest medical store and we have to leave that refuse there. This keeps the society disease free and hence less stress on people and govt.

 

[Hiraa]

Here in Sweden, this facility is provided free of cost by the commune because they know how to use the trash. It is in fact a valuable raw material for recycling, district heating, and bio fuel.
But we as citizens, sort all our trash in categories

1. colored glass
2. glass
3. soft plastic
4. hard plastic
5. biodegradable material
6. Packing material
7. magazines and newspaper
8. metal (cans etc)
9. household trash (burnable material)
10. Batteries, Cells
11. Electric bulbs. tube lights etc

So we do the hardwork but then the communes ensures it to regularly take away the trash and empty the bins.

Sweden walay to make electricity bhai. Was watching a documentry about it. Excellent work.

 

[Kabira]

We have this in Lahore. Housing societies charge for taking garbage.

And that Turkish company only clean walled city/old Lahore?

The residents of government quarters and bungalows will pay between Rs. 300 and Rs. 1000 while the fee for private-owned houses will range from Rs. 400 to Rs. 4000, depending on the size of the house.

Fees are fair. Same should be done in other cities.

 

[war&peace]

Sweden walay to make electricity bhai. Was watching a documentry about it. Excellent work.

Yes electricity, bio fuel (bio gas and oil), compost for fertiliser.
and then recycle all other materials like glass, plastics, metals, paper etc¨

BTW trash is so valuable and our recycling industry is so strong that sometimes we have import trash and we pay millions of dollars for that

https://www.independent.co.uk/envir...-country-has-run-out-of-rubbish-a7462976.html

 

[Yaseen1]

What about those residents who are already paying amount to garbage collectors in Islamabad.They shouldnot be taxed again

 

[Crusher]

We have this in Lahore. Housing societies charge for taking garbage.

In Germany "garbage collection tax" is charged from every household be it a village or a city by the local "garbage management agencies" in their respective areas. Once a week these agencies collect the garbage from every household, even garbage containers (of various sizes) are provided by local garbage collection agency to every household, which these households place outside of their houses on the day of garbage collection during the week which are then made "empty" by the sophisticated garbage collection trucks of the local garbage collection agency.

Garbage collection containers look something like this,

or this when filled

A local garbage collection truck equipped with sophisticated high duty garbage compressing equipment on its mission,

Garbage containers being attached to the garbage collection truck to empty them,

 

[Nefarious]

Yeh council tax pays for that here

 

[chauvunist]

We have in Peshawar and Municipality is very much up to the mark...they collect garbage on daily basis along with frequent street cleaning..

 

[BATMAN]

Why is it that only Islamabad need cleaning ?

Another proof that clueless idiots are running affairs in Pakistan.

No two houses generate same amount of trash. it would be very unfair to charge same amount to every house.

Focus should have been on reducing garbage, not exploiting the habit of garbage generation, into any opportunity to extort more money from an over taxed nation.
Besides, If people have to pay for every thing, than they shall also have freedom to hire people of their own choice.

Rules of developed nations are not applicable, because they rely too much on their system of education and trust in it's people.

 

[zeeshe100]

there should be water tax too on hotels and on car wash business.

 

[zeeshe100]

roads are full with garbage because of shops they throw their trash on roads

 

[KAL-EL]

roads are full with garbage because of shops they throw their trash on roads

Don’t most of them have trash dumpsters?