From 2025, some municipalities in the Liège province will suspend weekly rubbish collections, Sudinfo reports. Instead, some sparsely populated areas will have their waste collected just once a fortnight.
Intradel aims to minimise costs associated with its service by reducing collections in some areas. This is largely a result of rising employee wages and energy costs.
Municipalities with fewer than 250 inhabitants per kilometre squared, of which there are 31 in the Liège province, will see collections for organic and residual waste slashed to just once every two weeks, as is already the case for PMD and cardboard.
Intradel assures that the reduced service will be accompanied by the introduction of voluntary drop-off points for waste and a new, free paper and cardboard waste container for each affected household.
Municipalities with more than 1,000 inhabitants per kilometre squared will not be affected by the planned changes. Areas home to between 250 and 1,000 inhabitants will be able to choose which system they prefer.
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11 of 72 of the municipalities of Liège will be completely unaffected by the changes as their waste management is not overseen by Intradel.
Municipal waste collection system is a source of great anger in many parts of Belgium. Frequent strikes, numerous rules, obligatory waste separation and confusing collection calendars often leave rubbish piled on the side of the streets, especially in major cities.
