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Держземкадастр відновив роботу: які послуги можна отримати під час війни

archinfo — Tue, 24 May 2022 13:18:38 GMT

На Урядовому порталі повідомили, що автоматизована система Державного земельного кадастру (АС ДЗК) відновлює роботу в умовах воєнного стану в Україні. Функціонування та ведення кадастрової системи здійснюватиметься з урахуванням постанови Кабміну від 07.05.2022 р.№ 564 «Деякі питання ведення та функціонування Державного земельного кадастру в умовах воєнного стану». Детальна інформація щодо основних змін у роботі АС ДЗК в умовах воєнного стану наведена нижче: Здійснення повноважень державними кадастровими реєстраторами (ДКР): було (мирний час) - повноваження здійснюють всі ДКР на всій території України. Стало (воєнний час) - повноваження здійснює лише визначений перелік ДКР на території визначених адмін-тер одиниць. Здійснення повноважень з надання відомостей ДЗК адміністраторами ЦНАПів або уповноваженими посадовими особами: було (мирний час) - повноваження здійснюються по всій території України, доступ до відомостей ДЗК надається будь-яким користувачам відповідно до вимог законодавства. Стало (воєнний час) - повноваження здійснюються лише на території адмін-тер одиниць, відновлення доступу користувачам - відповідно до вимог законодавства. Оприлюднення відомостей ДЗК на вебсайті Держгеокадастру, у тому числі за допомогою Публічної кадастрової карти (ПКК): було (мирний час) - оприлюднюються всі відомості ДЗК з моменту їх внесення до системи; ПКК функціонує, публікуються всі шари та відомості, отримані при взаємодії з іншими кадастрами та інформаційними системами. Стало (воєнний час) - оприлюднення відомостей ДЗК не здійснюється, ПКК не функціонує. Доступ до відомостей ДЗК про координати поворотних точок меж об'єктів ДЗК: було (мирний час) - обмеження щодо надання таких відомостей ДЗК відсутні, відомості містяться у всіх формах документів, які надаються у вигляді адмінпослуг. Стало (воєнний час) - користування відомостями дозволяється лише визначеним ДКР, сертифікованим інженерам-землевпорядникам та сертифікованим інженерам-геодезистам, відомості не надаються у витягах, викопіюваннях, копія документів ДЗК. Процедура відключення (припинення доступу) до ДЗК ДКР, інших користувачів: було (мирний час) - доступ ДКР до ДЗК припиняється у разі оскарження його рішень, дій, бездіяльності, або внаслідок порушення ним вимог законодавства, доступ інших користувачів призупиняється з можливістю відновлення за порушення ними вимог законодавства. Стало (воєнний час) - доступ ДКР до ДЗК припиняється за порушення визначених обмежень (умов) прийняття рішень, вимог законодавства. Позбавлення доступу інших користувачів здійснюється за порушення вимог законодавства без можливості його відновлення. На території тимчасово окупованих адмін-тер одиниць припиняється доступ до ДЗК всіх користувачів. Підтвердження оплати послуг за надання відомостей з ДЗК: було (мирний час) - механізму підтвердження оплати електронною копією (скрін-копією) платіжного документа не передбачено. Стало (воєнний час) - оплата може підтверджуватися електронною компією (скрін-копією) платіжного документа.

Джерело: ДЗК

Рівненський клуб "Правовий всеобуч"

Willie Goode, founder of multiple DC-area waste companies, reflects on 30 years in business

archinfo — Tue, 24 May 2022 11:51:48 GMT

After starting out on the back of a truck, the CEO of Maryland-based Goode Cos. has since grown a multi-company portfolio. He reflects on what it took to get there, a tough contract experience in Florida and what's next. Long after he started working on the back of a waste truck, and more than 30 years after he founded his first company, Willie Goode now oversees multiple Washington, D.C.-area ventures and still enjoys doing it. Goode got his start working collection routes with a family member in high school, before he joined another D.C.-area company as a driver. When WM bought that company in 1991, he had a chance to join the larger operation, but he turned them down to start his own business. Goode's goal was to have three trucks, he said: One for him, his brother and his cousin. Mike Magee, WM's division president at the time, brought Goode on as a subcontractor, which helped him begin to grow the business. Today, Maryland-based Goode Cos. is an established name in the region — and has recently expanded into Florida — that services municipal contracts, local commercial accounts, the White House and more. Goode has also participated in multiple joint ventures with local waste entrepreneur Bruce Bates, including a company called WB Waste they started with Magee. These ventures encompass a range of hauling, transfer, recycling and disposal operations across multiple states. Earlier this month, at WasteExpo in Las Vegas, Goode was inducted into the National Waste & Recycling Association's Hall of Fame. Waste Dive spoke with Goode there about how his operations have grown, how they stay competitive, a bitter contract experience he had in Florida and more. The following interview has been edited for length and clarity. WASTE DIVE: You're involved in several different businesses across the industry. What's the best way to describe how they all fit together? WILLIE GOODE: I started off with Goode Trash Removal. When I was about 15 years in the business, I noticed when I would read the top 100 companies [in the waste industry], I see nobody's name with trash in it. So I changed it to Goode Cos. because I was, like, "I don't want to be the first on this list labeled as a trash company." In '96 I started my first joint venture because I didn't have enough money to do this contract in the area. My business partner today, which was a friend [Bruce Bates], he had three trucks. I had three trucks. We came together and formed another company called Unity Disposal & Recycling. My favorite singer was Queen Latifah, and she had this song, "U.N.I.T.Y." You look at our logo, we got hands shaking on the logo. We have been successfully in it 25 years as a joint venture. hen in '07, when the market got real tight on commercial roll-off dumpsters, Bates had roll-offs and Goode had roll-offs. So we put our roll-offs together, and we made a company called Lawrence Street Industry. So when we had Lawrence Street Industry, we had some transfer trailers, 18-wheelers, we brought them together and we started off a company called TAC Transport. We had another partner, we got out of that, we got up to over 100 tractors and trailers running from New York all the way down to North Carolina. We got out of that, and we started a tractor-trailer company called Team Transport because we brought the team back together, me and Bruce. Then we decided, we got all these different names, let's clean it up. So WB Waste is Willie and Bruce, but we call it working brothers. So now there's Goode Cos., Bates Trucking, Unity and WB Waste. Goode Cos. is residential only. Bate is only residential. Everything [else] is in WB Waste. You've got one C&D landfill through WB, but otherwise, your operations aren't fully vertically integrated. How have you stayed competitive on disposal? We have the transfer stations in the Washington, D.C., area. We do about 2,400 tons a day, and the No. 1 and 2 and 3 [haulers] use our facilities. So they bid on our trash going back to their landfills. Whatever amount they dump, they'd like to see that amount come to their landfill. So we make an agreement. For our C&D landfill, we just opened that up about two years ago now, and it's going pretty good. We do whatever we can recycle at the facilities [and] transfer stations, and whatever we don't capture, we capture it again when it gets to the landfill. So we do a double hit. And we're in good locations [with the transfer stations]. We have one inside the city, and we have one right outside the city. So we capture all the major traffic [in] downtown Washington, D.C. Outside there, where a lot of the municipalities and commercial business are on the outskirts of the city, they head right there. And then we have a large recycling facility we just opened up called Olive Street Processing, and we're doing about 200 tons a day there of single-stream. We just put in about $9 million worth of machinery from Machinex, and that's going great. We was gambling, you know how the recycling market was. Right now it's looking pretty good. Goode Cos. entered Florida in 2019 with a contract for certain areas of Palm Beach County. From a strategic standpoint, why did that make sense, and how's it been going so far? We have a condo in Miami, Florida, a family condo we've had for 14 years. I never even thought about ever pulling trash or servicing anything in Florida, and I'd heard some of the stories. But when I was turning 50 years old, I wondered about, not my retirement home, but my main home, where I just go and relax. I didn't want to do Miami, too hustle-bustle. I have some friends in Palm Beach, and I went to one of their houses, and I woke up that morning, and I was like, "I don't know how I'm going to pay for it, but I could do this one day." The solid waste authority came out, stopped the contract, and they was doing a diversity study to try to locate minority businesses. That's a hard feat because there's not many large minority companies in the United States or anywhere. So I went down there and I studied it, like I always do. I'm more operations than inside the office. I do the office three-and-a-half days a week, other than that I go crazy. Because when I go to the sites I can see, hear, smell operations. I come from the back of the truck, so that's what I know. I went down there, met some people, got the bid package. I did look at a contract a couple of years before that in Tampa, but there is a requirement you're supposed to have some Florida experience. [Palm Beach County lifted that requirement for this contract, and after a meeting with city officials they said], "you are who we're looking for." October 2019, we started to work in Florida, and it was interesting. It was my son, my brother, a couple more people. I bought this corporate house in a new subdivision, it was one level, and gave everybody a bedroom. It was a bonding time. Because we had to set up. We had to learn the area. God knows, we weren't ready for the weather. It was a new hot in Palm Beach. And not only that, what we call yard waste material, they call vegetation. It's in big piles, and you need grapplers, because you can't touch it with your hands. That was new to us. Last year, in Riviera Beach, Florida, you had a different contract experience with a competitor — WM, who you used to work for — saying you didn't own the business. How did it feel to run into that? One of my worst experiences ever. I had the best score, the best price. We know we can do the service, we studied the area, our office is in the area. Everything worked out. We spoke first. We thought Waste Management would go first. When we did our presentation, Waste Management went in the lobby, and they sat out there and watched our whole video presentation. That's why they went in there and had to convince them that Goode Cos., was not the company. When this woman [from WM] said she don't know if Willie Goode owned the company... everybody in the world know Willie Goode own Goode Cos. She know Willie Goode own Goode Cos. That hurt the most. When we got in, people were looking at us like we were a foreign object. Their whole attitude changed. We were like, what happened? That's when they said we gotta have another meeting. That hurt. Over the last few years, big waste companies have been talking more about diversity and making pledges, but then you're also still experiencing this. What do you think it will take to see a broader change in the industry? I thought because Riviera Beach was a majority-Black, African American city, I thought that'd be the case. But the power and the belief of people wins, and we did not win. A couple people made comments, "Well, maybe you should work under Waste Management." I've been doing that all my life. I did that when I started. When I first [subcontracted with them], as a company, they was good to me. Mike Magee and the old regime of Waste Management, the old trash guys at Waste Management, they subbed me my first million dollars worth of work in Washington, D.C. I learned to go for more, I didn't stay with that three-truck cap. My vision was three, but I let that vision open up broader, and this is the result of it. I'm able to make that [Hall of Fame] wall right there. Do you think it's harder for new people to grow to the scale where they can make that wall now? I think if I had to start right now, in 2022, and I just was working for Goode Cos., and I wanted to go out and branch with all my knowledge, if I didn't have [some family money], it's hard to come out the door. I don't want to say, would it never happen again? Of course I want it to happen again. I want it to be anybody that started out [can do it], and especially, like me, running a course this long of 30 years, coming from one truck and basically having almost 300 trucks on the street today. It's still hard today because fighting battles like that Riviera Beach. That took money to do that. We spent over 10 workdays riding alley to alley, street to street, doing studies because they didn't even have the commercial list, it wasn't in the package. Because you know why? Waste Management was going to have to give it up. The city didn't have it. I had to guess how many trucks it'd take because we had no scope of work. That right there has moved up to the top of my list of the things that hurt. I have some other ones. I've tried, and I'm still gonna keep trying. I'm not gonna stop. I got a good crew, and we offer — just like the large companies offer — great wages, great benefits. Guess what else they get, though? They get Willie Goode. They get to have fun with Big Will. We set up season tickets for [sporting events] in the Washington, D.C., area and Miami, and we send families where they can sit on the floor or sit in a suite. I make sure the men and women that work for me can take their family. You should see the smiles on their face. It's getting harder and harder to operate — with labor, fuel and other inflationary costs — so a lot of family companies are selling right now. Why aren't you, and do you ever think about that in the near term? I got a bigger purpose to fulfill, and keep fulfilling, than cashing out. Yes, this could be my biggest contract ever to sell or cash out. I have more managers that I know for a fact will not be in the office as a manager [if they work elsewhere]. They just won't have that opportunity at most of the other companies. I give them that high-level chance, and I want to continue on. Now don't get me wrong, if I woke up one day and I didn't want to go to work anymore... I've been doing this for 40 years, and I want to enjoy life because I sacrificed a lot. My kids know I worked seven days a week. All they know is, daddy's gone at four in the morning, daddy comes back home at six or seven in the evening, and he's burnt tired. I'd be so tired that I'd go to sleep at the dinner table. So there's always either the right approach, the right number or the right timing. Is there anything else you'd like people to know about your time in the industry? I just want to thank everybody in the industry. It's phenomenal. The people in this industry — no matter what size company you are, what state you in, what color you are, what race you are — we stick together. We really do.

Rivne club "Legal universal education"

Як оформити право власності на земельну частку (пай)

archinfo — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 07:23:25 GMT

До 1 січня 2025 року власник невитребуваної земельної частки (паю) або його спадкоємець повинен оформити право власності на земельну ділянку. Як крок за кроком досягнути необхідного результату? Які документи потрібні для такої процедури та куди слід звертатися?

До 1 січня 2025 року власник невитребуваної земельної частки (паю) або його спадкоємець повинен оформити право власності на земельну ділянку. Як крок за кроком досягнути необхідного результату, які документи потрібні для такої процедури та куди слід звертатись? Відповідає на ці запитання Ольга Жила, фахівчиня Миколаївського бюро правової допомоги.

У разі, якщо власник чи спадкоємець цього не зробить, то буде вважатись, що відмовився від неї. Тоді ця невитребувана земельна частка (пай) після того, як буде виокремлена земельна ділянка, передається у комунальну власність тієї територіальної громади, на території якої вона розташована у порядку визнання майна безхазяйним.

Тож, власники земельних часток (паїв), не втрачайте можливість, і обов’язково оформіть право власності.

Пропонуємо поетапно розглянути цю процедуру.

1. Вам, як власникові, слід звернутися до відповідної сільської, селищної, міської ради із заявою про виділення належної земельної частки (паю) у натурі (на місцевості) та надання дозволу на розроблення технічної документації із землеустрою щодо встановлення (відновлення) меж земельної ділянки в натурі.

2. Після отриманого рішення, прийнятого місцевою радою, укласти договір із землевпорядними організаціями на виконання робіт із землеустрою щодо встановлення (відновлення) меж земельної ділянки в натурі (на місцевості). Звертаємо увагу, що такий договір може бути укладений не лише особою, яка має право на земельну частку (пай), але й місцевою радою. Іншими словами договір укладає той, за чий рахунок виготовляється документація.

3. Далі потрібно звернутися до Державного кадастрового реєстратора із заявою про державну реєстрацію земельної ділянки (за відповідною формою) та отримати Витяг з Державного земельного кадастру про земельну ділянку. Зауважимо, що за результатами таких дій цій земельній ділянці уже буде присвоєний кадастровий номер.

4. Потім необхідно звернутися до місцевої ради із заявою про затвердження документації із землеустрою щодо встановлення (відновлення) меж земельної ділянки в натурі (на місцевості) для оформлення земельної ділянки у власність.

5. Останній етап – реєстрація права власності на земельну ділянку. А для цього можна звернутися або до реєстратора, який знаходиться у центрі надання адміністративних послуг, або ж до нотаріуса. І як наслідок – ви отримаєте Витяг з Державного реєстру прав про проведену державну реєстрацію права власності на земельну ділянку.

Дотримуючись вищевказаних правил ви оформите свій пай і станете його законним власником.

Джерело: Безоплатна правова допомога.

Рівненський клуб "Правовиовий всеобуч"

Glass recycling revival relies on a growing number of specialty drop-off and collection programs

archinfo — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 07:11:56 GMT

Recyclers in areas such as Kansas City, New Orleans and beyond are bringing new energy to glass recycling after a period of market pressures and grassroots support. Over the past year, glass recycling advocates saw a glimmer of hope as fewer communities eliminated glass from their recycling programs than had done so recently. Now work is underway in some areas to not just stop the cuts but to reintroduce the material into programs. Many of those efforts originated at the local level with creative solutions to promote glass recycling while boosting its value through source separation. “We’ve seen a dramatic change in communities dropping glass,” said Scott DeFife, president of the Glass Packaging Institute. “We're getting glass back in many different areas, and we are doing even better at initiating new ways of collecting it.”About 3.1 million tons of glass containers were recycled in the United States in 2018, the most recent year for which data is available, for a recycling rate of 31.3%, according to the U.S. EPA. The agency arrives at its numbers by combining data from groups such as GPI and state environmental agencies. The glass container industry aims to boost that recycling rate to 50% by 2030, according to GPI's 10-year road map. Tonnage is still down from pre-pandemic numbers, but GPI notes a resurgence in communities requesting assistance with getting back into glass recycling and producing an even-higher-quality, cleaner glass stream.

"It's been a pretty easy process of recruitment for us to get more cities on board and more businesses participating as well," said Piercyn Charbonneau, commercial program manager at Ripple Glass, a Kansas City, Missouri-based recycling operation founded in 2009. Ripple's original drop-off program continues to expand, and it launched a curbside collection program last year.

"More and more cities outside of the Kansas City metro [area] reach out to us to see how they can duplicate our programs," Charbonneau said.

Ypsilanti, Michigan, and Laconia, New Hampshire, are among the communities reintroducing glass to curbside collection. Communities including Marquette, Michigan; Gwinnett County, Georgia; and Lexington and Greensboro, North Carolina, have also transitioned to or expanded glass drop-off site collection instead of curbside collection.

Some glass recycling discontinuations occurred when haulers chose not to carry the material; others resulted from city leaders making quick budget cuts when recycling costs spiked. Laconia is among the many municipalities that eliminated glass because the recycling costs soared and landfilling the material became cheaper.

“Even if that glass had good end markets, it was in the blended [material] rate,” DeFife said. “It was a way to shift the budget costs from recycling to landfill. ... The economics of the landfill and recycling are out of balance.”

Recycling costs have since dropped precipitously in many cases, prompting cities to explore new glass solutions. DeFife said curbside collection remains the best option (after deposit programs) for getting high volumes of clean material. Ideally, he said, glass would be collected separately at the curb, and he believes the pending adoption of extended producer responsibility systems in some states could help fund this model.

Amid these shifts, recycled glass use in containers also has grown as plastic reduction pressure mounts. Now, the tricky part is implementing the best mix of efficient collection and transport systems to capture supply and meet growing demand. A number of specialized, local solutions are emerging to fill that gap.

Quality and economics

Keeping collected glass local reduces transportation costs for the notoriously heavy material. That’s especially important at a time when labor disruptions and other supply-chain issues are driving up transportation costs.

Programs only can remain local when processors and/or end users are nearby, so shipping costs don’t negate profits and efficiencies. The number of large glass storage and processing facility closures over the last five years compounded recycling problems across the country and caused communities near those facilities to drop glass instead of shipping it long distances. But new plants are cropping up to meet the need.

A new glass storage facility at the Fergus Falls Transfer Station in Minnesota accepted its first load in early January. It will take material from Otter Tail County’s glass drop-off locations, which collect a combined total of about 750 tons annually.

In Connecticut, last year the Houstatonic Resources Recovery Authority partnered with Strategic Materials and Urban Mining to bring glass recycling to 14 communities. Residents drop off separated food-grade glass at a dozen sites, and it gets processed at a recently opened plant nearby.

Glass recycling returned to central Michigan thanks in large part to the nonprofit Recycle Ann Arbor upgrading equipment at a recycling plant that shuttered five years ago.

New facilities and processing capabilities are part of a growing wave of large- and small-scale investments in glass recycling infrastructure. DeFife says such upgrades are long overdue and paramount for launching or resuming a glass recycling program.

“The entire U.S. recycling system has got to get better at having better-quality output, but it takes investment in equipment and material collection,” he said.

Some MRF operators and material processors dislike glass in single-stream recycling because it is heavy; broken glass shards can get caught in equipment or stick to other materials and other material bits can potentially stick to it and lessen its value. Modern glass programs are revisiting a quality-boosting concept from decades past: segregating materials instead of collecting them all in one bin. As material quality increases, so too does value.

“When glass is collected single-stream curbside, it's really not getting collected properly, and the processing for material in that way is very ineffective,” Charbonneau said. “We've been pretty proud of our numbers. We raised the glass recycling rate in Kansas City from about 3% to 20%.”

Ripple launched a commercial collection program in 2018 and now partners with more than 300 bars, restaurants, stadiums and event spaces. The success of that program prompted the company to begin a residential curbside collection program last year.

They’re more than halfway through a six-month, 650-household pilot project with the first participating city — Roeland Park, Kansas — which eliminated glass recycling nearly two decades ago.

“There is a strong sentiment, we believe, to bring that back,” said Roeland Park Mayor Mike Kelly. “We want to make recycling and waste diversion as easy as possible for folks, so we were excited to try this pilot project.”

Kelly said regional glass recycling faces challenges like industry conditions and economics.

“The waste haulers that currently provide recycling services don't accept glass,” he said. “It's a unique problem that’s going to require a unique solution."

Ripple’s core services have expanded to a nine-state region, and it collected 40,000 tons of glass in the last year. It hopes to partner with a second community on a curbside pilot this year. The city currently provides funding for the curbside program, and it didn't provide specifics about how the program fits into its overall materials management costs, but the model could evolve. For example, future options might involve directly billing residents.

“We want to see a lot more glass growth,” Charbonneau said. “It seems like our end users have just an endless appetite for our recycled glass, so we're always looking for more ways to get more glass in our system and processed and out to them.”

Kelly would like other communities in the Kansas City region to get on board because a regional approach provides continuity of service and economy-of-scale efficiencies.

“We’re not afraid to be the leader here and see how it works,” he said. "We have several cities watching us and asking us for weekly reports on the diversion rates or the participation rate. I think this will be a great data point."

Grassroots efforts

Citizen advocates are driving many of the new programs, whether by pressuring local governments to devise a glass recycling solution or launching their own.

For instance, respondents to a recent survey in Cass County, Nebraska, cited glass recycling as the No. 1 service they would like the county to add that is not currently available. Officials in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, want to establish a permanent glass collection site due to growing requests from residents.

In Louisiana, Franziska Trautmann said she co-founded glass collection and processing organization Glass Half Full with Matt Steitz in spring 2020 “because we had no reliable glass recycling programs in New Orleans … and all our glass just went to the landfill."

The pair learned about Louisiana’s coastal erosion problem and landed on the idea of turning collected glass into sand that can be used for coastal restoration. They launched a crowdfunding campaign to purchase their first small glass crusher and then raised another $100,000 via crowdfunding as the operation expanded.

Glass Half Full transitioned to a self-sustaining, revenue-generating business model by starting a glass pickup service and selling the processed product. The subscription service now operates throughout New Orleans’ neighborhoods, and the company still offers a free drop-off location at its facility. The entity is private and does not receive government funding, although it is open to partnering with local governments. In addition to having its own crusher, the organization has its own trucks and vans to transport glass.

“We didn't want to have to transport anything too far because of the environmental costs associated with shipping,” Trautmann said. “We ultimately decided to turn it into sand so that we didn't have to ship it off to a plant.”

So far, the business has collected more than 750 tons of glass and hopes to expand to other regions. While multiple cities from various areas have sent inquiries, Trautmann said the initial focus will be on expanding in Louisiana and throughout the Gulf South.

Thinking big by starting local

Some regional and national entities are investing in local glass recycling efforts, which is another sign of the concept gaining scale.

GPI assisted with funding Chicago’s Don’t Trash Glass pilot program last year. The bottles collected from bars and restaurants during the pilot went into new products including bottles and fiberglass. The pilot partners enlisted help from GlassKing, which launched a similar commercial collection program in Phoenix in 2018.

DeFife says local programs are more nimble because they don’t bear the same level of red tape or legislative barriers as national efforts. For example, establishing federal recycling legislation could take a decade. But local programs take shape much faster and cater specifically to the communities they serve instead of trying to be a catch-all.

“At the local level, there's a lot of innovation and entrepreneurship that can go quickly when somebody can show a system that works,” DeFife said. “They’re more manageable, and you have more willing partners.”

O-I Glass, one of the largest global glass packaging manufacturers, launched its own locally-focused Glass4Good (G4G) program last year. It collects glass in communities near its facilities and uses the proceeds to give back to those communities.

Residents bring their glass to drop-off centers, and O-I turns the material into cullet for its operations. The weight of the recycled content in that community is converted to a dollar amount, and 100% of the money goes to a local charitable organization.

“We’re really trying to find ways that we can help create efficiencies in the glass recycling infrastructure in their area, with the added benefit of the social engagement,” said Jim Woods, PR lead for O-I's Americas North division. “In some cases, we came into these communities, and they were paying to ship their glass scrap elsewhere when there were local options for recycling and creating efficiencies.”

Transportation hasn’t been a stressor because the programs are within two to 30 miles of O-I facilities. The company leverages its own infrastructure or what is already in the community. However, in some cases, communities might require investments like roll-off containers or storage bunkers.

“This is case-by-case talking to our communities and finding out what hurdles they're experiencing,” Woods said. “Let's … make sure that not only are you helping the environment by avoiding landfilling perfectly recyclable material, but then also making sure that we are doing good in the communities through the donation program.”

G4G collected 80 metric tons of material as of Dec. 31, and that volume is expected to grow this year with new community partnerships. James City County and Danville, both in Virginia, became the first G4G communities last year, and others in Colorado, Indiana, Ohio and Texas are on the docket.

Organizers for all the new glass recycling initiatives emphasize the importance of understanding each individual community's needs, resources and challenges to implement a successful program.

Achieving greater recycling rates won't happen overnight. Volumes are still below pre-pandemic levels. And despite fewer communities suspending glass collection, it's still happening in areas around the country. Yet, the leaders behind these newer programs believe their work is a good start toward reviving glass recycling.

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New York aims to launch commercial waste zones in 2022, sector's largest change in decades

archinfo — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 06:39:30 GMT

Dive Brief: New York City's Department of Sanitation (DSNY) released the final part of a request for proposals on Tuesday, kicking off a timeline to finalize contracts for 20 non-exclusive commercial waste zones and citywide container service as early as next summer. Customer transitions in certain zones could begin by late next year, with final implementation likely complete by 2024. DSNY has qualified 50 bidders to submit final proposals by March 17, based on an initial RFP round earlier this year. Waste Management, Waste Connections, Action Environmental Services (an IWS subsidiary), Winters Bros. Waste Systems and a range of other local players will be vying for 10-year contracts that could potentially be extended until 2042. In conjunction, DSNY recently finalized rules to govern safety, customer service and third-party waste audits for the system. The agency also announced it's launching a Commercial Waste Safety Task Force, comprising members such as the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) and the Teamsters, with its first meeting scheduled for December. Dive Insight: Nearly two years after Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a law to establish commercial waste zones, which followed many years of fierce advocacy and debate, the outgoing administration has taken a pivotal step toward making one of the biggest changes to the city's waste industry in decades. While the city originally aimed to begin implementation this year, the pandemic led to multiple delays as well as temporary budget constraints at DSNY that slowed the process. Ongoing uncertainty about the pace of economic recovery in New York has led some haulers and business groups to request further discussion, but DSNY's moves this week are a clear sign implementation is moving ahead. During a Tuesday hearing of the New York City Council's sanitation committee, Deputy Commissioner for Policy and External Affairs Gregory Anderson described the already extended timeline as appropriate. "I think it [was] important that we took the time to do this right and to understand the impact that COVID-19 had on the commercial waste industry and sort of allow them to get back on their feet before proceeding," he said, noting the importance of moving on a program that will "shape the future of this industry over the next several decades." DSNY anticipates awarding up to 65 contracts; each of the 20 zones can have up to three haulers and five citywide contracts will be available for containerized waste. Companies can service a maximum of 15 zones, plus one citywide contract. Currently, New York has an open market system where companies can service customers anywhere in the five boroughs as long as they maintain a city license. Depending on how the process unfolds the local market could see new or returning players (Winters Bros. and Waste Management), the solidification of existing large footholds (Waste Connections and Action) and a range of outcomes for many other longtime local haulers. Some companies are also developing plans for unique joint ventures or subcontracting arrangements as part of their bids. The National Waste & Recycling Association said members and local haulers were still assessing the glut of new information, but other initial reactions indicate this was generally what the industry expected. "Carters should be pleased with the final audit rules, which are far less onerous than what was originally proposed," said SWANA CEO David Biderman, describing the removal of a proposed requirement for haulers to reimburse the cost of their customers' third-party waste audits. "There was widespread industry and other opposition to it, and the department wisely revised it." Supporters are hopeful the new system can boost recovery rates for recyclables and organics, while also limiting the number of vehicle miles traveled through more efficient zone-based routing. Per the RFP, DSNY "strongly prefers" that proposed prices to collect recyclables and organics be at least 30% lower than for solid waste. The criteria for judging bids breaks down to 35% based on price, 35% on technical plans, and 30% on a bidder's capacity to provide service and their operational history. Currently, haulers are subject to a rate cap set by the Business Integrity Commission — a vestige of New York's crackdown on organized crime during the 1990s — but that rate hasn't gone up for multiple years, despite industry requests. Haulers that win zone contracts will still operate under a new "maximum price," but their contracts will have the opportunity for automatic annual rate increases. Council Member Antonio Reynoso, primary sponsor of the waste zone bill and outgoing chair of the sanitation committee, said during the hearing he was optimistic prices wouldn't spike for customers, but “the pandemic does concern me and I don’t know if we’re going to get prices that we might have to lock in for a significant amount of time that are more reflective of the moment than it is the standard.” DSNY's Anderson said carters and customers will have the ability to negotiate within the maximum price and "there's still a level of competition in the system." The agency also noted plans to closely engage with customers as they potentially see new haulers and different requirements in the years ahead. Biderman said the implementation period will present challenges for all involved and an increase to the current rate cap was "overdue." He noted higher rates under the zone system are likely, adding "it may well cost a little bit more to get your garbage removed safely and in an environmentally proper way." The North American industry's largest public companies, including Waste Management and Waste Connections, all pointed to price increases as a key strategy to offset inflationary pressures during the latest round of quarterly earnings calls. Another area to watch, among many, is what types of forward-looking investments bidders propose. DSNY is looking to see fleets with at least 50% "zero emissions vehicles" by 2030, plus new or expanded processing capacity for recyclables and organics. While the local industry has made some recent investments in these areas, zoning proponents say much more work is needed. "In addition to aggressively negotiating with the waste companies bidding, to ensure that they’re building the right facilities and investing heavily in customer education, we would urge the city and sanitation department to continue to look for ways to ensure that independent and expert waste auditors are available to every commercial customer," said Justin Wood, director of policy at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, during the hearing. While a handful of companies have ample experience with municipal RFPs, many local haulers do not and some are bringing in industry consultants. DSNY has scheduled meetings on Dec. 8 and Jan. 11 for bidders to ask questions before submitting proposals that could lock in the fate of some of their businesses for years to come.

Рівненський клуб "Правовий всеобуч"

В Україні планують створити Нацсистему реєстрів та кадастрів нерухомості

fingert — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 12:51:38 GMT

За прийнятою концепцією кожна земельна ділянка, споруда, квартира та право власності матиме унікальний ідентифікатор, що буде незмінним та ключем для обміну даними. Міністр розвитку громад та територій Олексій Чернишов взяв участь в урядовій нараді з питань системи реєстрів і кадастрів нерухомості, адресного реєстру та реєстру споруд. До наради, яка проходила під головуванням Віце-прем’єр-міністра – Міністра цифрової трансформації України Михайла Федорова, також долучилися Міністр юстиції України Денис Малюська та Голова Державної служби України з питань геодезії, картографії та кадастру Роман Лещенко. За прийнятою концепцією кожна земельна ділянка, споруда, квартира та право власності матиме унікальний ідентифікатор, що буде незмінним і виступатиме в якості ключа для обміну даними. Це унеможливить шахрайство при реєстрації прав власності на нерухоме майно. До національної системи реєстрів та кадастрів нерухомості мають увійти п’ять реєстрів: Державний реєстр речових прав на нерухоме майно (ДРРП) Державний земельний кадастр (ДЗК) Реєстр будівель та споруд, що буде створено в складі ЄДЕССБ Єдиний адресний реєстр, що має бути створений Оновлений Реєстр адміністративно-територіального устрою Між кожним з них буде організовано обмін інформацією та пришвидшено їх наповнення, а комплексні послуги будуть надаватися громадянам через «єдине вікно». Наприклад, при оформленні права власності більше не доведеться отримувати жодних витягів чи довідок, а отримати комплексну послугу стане можливим за одним звернення. Уся інформація з реєстрів відображатиметься автоматично. При цьому система також буде взаємодіяти з іншими державними реєстрами, зокрема з Єдиним державним демографічним реєстром (ЄДДР) та Єдиним державним реєстром юридичних осіб, фізичних осіб – підприємців та громадських формувань (ЄДР). «Ефективне управління будь-чим неможливе без системного підходу. І особливо, коли мова йде про облік нерухомості у сорока мільйонній країні. Зараз цей облік нагадує купу пазлів, які не стикуються один з одним, тому дають в результаті хаос і зловживання. Національна система реєстрів нерухомості дозволить вивести взаємодію на новий рівень, що буде суттєво економити час та кошти платників податків», – підкреслив Міністр розвитку громад та територій Олексій Чернишов. Також під час наради обговорювалися механізми наповнення і верифікації даних по реєстру споруд та адресному реєстру, у тому числі тих, що зараз існують виключно у вигляді паперової картотеки. Верифікацію та наповнення цих реєстрів здійснюватиметься органами місцевого самоврядування. Після збору даних із вже існуючих реєстрів та їх співставлення, вони також вноситимуть юридично значимі документи. Наприклад, що підтверджують перейменування вулиці чи населеного пункту. Джерело: Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України

Рівненський клуб "Правовий всеобуч"

Roundup: Biden infrastructure plan light on waste details, report highlights recycling data gap

fingert — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 12:06:19 GMT

The sector reacts to the $2 trillion proposal, Eunomia analyzes state recycling rates, organics pilots are on the rise, New York tackles litter and more local stories. Editor’s Note: Waste and recycling is an inherently local issue in the United States, and we’re looking for new ways to highlight how these stories fit into broader trends. Send us your tips or feedback at waste.dive.editors@industrydive.com. NWRA says Biden plan underfunds roads, while vehicle electrification gets a boost President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan, the anticipated $2 trillion infrastructure package unveiled in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, lacks any overt mentions of solid waste, recycling, organics management or zero waste. That’s despite environmental groups and adjacent organizations previously recommending allocating millions of dollars to enhance MRFs, organics processing and other potential boosts to local infrastructure. Likewise, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and Zero Waste USA shared a letter to the president and vice president following the plan’s release, calling for building zero waste infrastructure and supporting reuse and repair infrastructure, among other policy suggestions. The National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) also expressed disappointment in a lack of recycling-specific points in the plan. “Biden’s proposal fails to take into account the need for increased domestic recycling infrastructure that was highlighted by shortages of manufacturing feedstock during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic last year,” the organization responded in a statement Thursday. But a number of broad themes on environment, technology and labor could still impact the waste and recycling industry. Overall, the sweeping plan, facing criticism from some for being too wide-reaching, aims to strengthen the nation’s aged infrastructure while focusing on climate resilience, job creation and consideration of community inequities. NWRA, however, believes the plan does not allocate enough funds to traditional infrastructure such as roads, highways and bridges. “The waste and recycling industry travels every road in the nation at least once every week, something only the U.S. Postal Service can also lay claim to, making it one of the most significant stakeholders in America’s surface transportation system,” the organization said. The plan does feature clear emphasis on vehicle electrification — to the tune of $174 billion in total investment — supporting a trend that could shape how the public and private sector alike decide to evolve their fleets in the coming years. Some of those funds will go toward grants and incentives for state and local governments and private companies to build half a million EV chargers by 2030. The plan does not call out heavy-duty trucks for electrification, but does name transit, school buses and the federal fleet. Some major cities, including New York, Santa Cruz, California, and Charleston, South Carolina, have taken steps to implement EV technology into their refuse fleets in the past year. Canada-based electric truck manufacturer Lion Electric — which counts Wilmington, North Carolina, among its early municipal adopters along with major companies like Waste Connections — sees the Biden plan as “great news for electrification of transportation.” “The more charging stations there will be, the more confidence it will give to fleets to transition towards electric,” Lion spokesperson Patrick Gervais said in an email. The combination of legislation, incentives and emphasis on a strained supply chain in the plan represent the keys to success for electrifying heavy-duty transportation, and the next step to electrify trucking, Gervais said. Mack Trucks expressed similar optimism. “We hope federal policies move forward to make medium- and heavy-duty EVs more competitive in U.S. markets, including for incentives and infrastructure investments, and we look forward to working with Congress and the Administration on the details to realize the American Jobs Plan,” spokesperson Kimberly Pupillo said in a statement, citing demand for its new electric refuse vehicle among commercial and municipal customers. But in addition to proposed funding via a corporate tax rate increase, NWRA also took issue with the vehicle portions of the proposal. The group panned the plan’s apparent lack of tax credits or incentives for private companies to invest in these vehicles, as have existed for compressed natural gas. Other climate-conscious parts of the plan include $15 billion set out for “demonstration projects” related to climate R&D priorities, which include carbon capture and storage as well as biofuel and bioproducts. Another section focuses on remediating properties in disadvantaged communities impacted by industrial and energy sites, putting $5 billion to brownfield and Superfund sites and investing in the Economic Development Agency’s Public Works program. Elsewhere in the plan, while specific waste implications of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, did not come up, they are the target of $10 billion in a bid to monitor and remediate the forever chemicals in drinking water. While indirect, emphasis throughout the plan on replacing old water lines with newer, safer ones could ultimately lead to a reduction in single-use plastic water bottles, U.S. PIRG’s Alex Truelove noted. Local data quality a pressing issue A new report from consulting firm Eunomia that standardized recycling data throughout the U.S. found states with deposit return systems were among the most successful in terms of actually recycling material into new uses. Maine led the way, with a 74% recycling rate when including cardboard. The report, sponsored by Ball Corporation, also makes a case for extended producer responsibility policies and other supportive regulations, such as disposal bans or related measures. More standardized and robust data collection from MRFs, processors and municipalities was another key recommendation for states and the federal government to assess. While many of these discussions may go beyond the local level, a lead author thinks municipalities can take multiple steps to help in the meantime. Sarah Edwards, director of Eunomia North America, said one thing local governments can do is gather more specific waste and recycling data so it can be “useful to state legislators or policymakers.” Contracts are seen as a key tool for doing this, if they aren’t being utilized in that way already. For example, haulers or processors could be required to provide more transparent data on material composition and MRF residual rates. For streams that may not fall under local control – such as commercial or multifamily generators in some areas – there may still be mechanisms to require additional data through hauler or facility permitting processes. Another area where local governments can take near-term action, said Edwards, is rethinking weight-based recycling targets and related educational messaging. “It doesn’t matter what you collect at the curbside, it doesn’t matter what you say someone can put in the cart. It actually matters when it gets to the processor and someone can do something with it,” she said. “It shouldn’t be about diversion, it should be about what we do collect ending up in a product, and hopefully that product is circular. Organics pilots on the rise Pandemic-related budget cuts may have affected some organics recycling programs, but plenty of others are moving ahead. In recent residential pilot examples, Bowling Green, Ohio, is finalizing a dropoff site and giving away 350 buckets for household food scrap storage. Ridgewood, New Jersey, is engaged in a 100-household pilot program that could be scaled up in the future. Medford, Massachusetts, recently put out its own request for proposals to support residential subscription service for organics. Meanwhile, a two-month dropoff pilot to capture takeout containers in Aspen, Colorado, will end after it saw more standard residential scraps than restaurant items, but the town intends to consider other options. Elsewhere, the focus has been on higher-volume commercial settings. Montgomery County, Maryland, recycled 200,000 pounds of food waste from 11 participating businesses last year and aims to grow the program. Ocean City, Maryland, is expanding a similar pilot with five participating resort restaurants. In Massachusetts, the Cambridge City Council recently gave unanimous support to preliminary exploration of a proposal for city-provided organics collection to 100 small, independent restaurants – many of which could be required to divert material under an upcoming state policy change. More updates from around the country New York City is ramping up efforts to mitigate deteriorating litter conditions following a $106 million budget to the Department of Sanitation last year. Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced the city will add more than 100 trucks to weekly litter basket service, restore Sunday service, launch a new Precision Cleaning Initiative for local issues and further support community cleanups. (Gothamist) Area residents filed a class-action suit against Memphis, Tennessee, and the Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division, seeking $38.8 million in damages related to allegedly chronic delays in waste collection by Waste Pro and Inland Waste in recent years. The development is the latest of many ongoing issues related to local service, including Waste Pro’s recently stated desire to exit the contract early. (Daily Memphian) A multi-year court case over alleged odors from a Waste Connections landfill in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, took a surprise turn when the plaintiff clarified her issue was with another local site – a wastewater treatment plant. General Counsel Pat Shea said the ensuing dismissal “vindicates the company’s position” that landfills are “vital infrastructure for America and are not nuisances.” Collection contracts previously held by Waste Management will transition today, with Republic Services taking over service in Battle Creek, Michigan, and Amwaste taking over in Jefferson County, Alabama. Meanwhile, after an ongoing legal dispute, it appears Jackson, Tennessee, will continue its multi-decade relationship with the company in a new contract after all. Albany, Georgia expects to save an estimated $500,000 per year by fully privatizing residential waste collection in an arrangement with hauler Concrete Disposal. (WALB) After a pandemic-related delay – something happening around the country – an ordinance takes effect today in Honolulu, Hawaii, prohibiting food vendors from offering or providing items such as “plastic forks, knives, spoons, straws, stir sticks, picks or sushi grass.” It joins a growing list of such policies around the country, as displayed in a new map from the Surfrider Foundation. (Honolulu Star Advertiser).

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Про зміну правил переведення дачних та садових будинків у житлові

fingert — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 13:22:51 GMT

Рішення компетентного органу про переведення дачних і садових будинків в житлові без внесення відповідних змін до Реєстру вважатиметься достатньою підставою для використання цих будинків як житла. Кабінет Міністрів України схвалив розроблену Мін’юстом постанову «Про внесення змін до деяких постанов Кабінету Міністрів України у сфері державної реєстрації». За словами Міністра юстиції Дениса Малюськи, прийняття цієї постанови є черговим кроком на шляху удосконалення механізмів надання адміністративних послуг у сфері державної реєстрації. Так, постановою передбачається інтеграція функціоналу Державного реєстру речових прав на нерухоме майно до Єдиного державного вебпорталу електронних послуг, щоб забезпечити громадянам можливість подання заяв в електронній формі та одержання результатів наданої адміністративної послуги. «Відомості Реєстру доповнюються інформацією про право довірчої власності як способу забезпечення виконання зобов’язань, інформацією, необхідною для здійснення зв’язку із заявником – абонентський номер мобільного телефону та/або адреса електронної пошти, а також відомостями про ціну (вартість) об’єкту нерухомого майна», – пояснив Міністр. Згідно із запропонованими змінами, рішення компетентного органу про переведення дачних і садових будинків в житлові без внесення відповідних змін до Реєстру вважатиметься достатньою підставою для використання цих будинків як житла, у тому числі для реєстрації місця проживання. Крім того, постановою передбачається приведення актів Уряду у відповідність до останніх змін законодавства у сфері державної реєстрації. «Прийняття постанови сприятиме удосконаленню механізмів надання адміністративних послуг у сфері державної реєстрації, оптимізує процес кредитування, а також позитивно вплине на залучення інвестицій в економіку України», – наголосив очільник відомства. Джерело: Міністерство юстиції України.

Рівненський клуб "Правовий всеобуч"

Renewed interest in automated side loaders driven by pandemic concerns, persistent safety issues

fingert — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 13:00:38 GMT

ASLs have become increasingly popular with some predicting they could see more interest due to pandemic safety concerns. But tighter capital budgets may be a short-term challenge. Dubuque, Iowa has done all it can to maximize the benefits of a new automated side loader — even mapping out the location of each ASL-friendly cart to optimize the collection route — before the truck rolls down streets for the first time in spring 2021. But the vehicle will bring another advantage city officials didn’t anticipate: The drivers will stay more isolated from any possible coronavirus exposure outside the cab. Though the city started planning for ASL collection five years ago, pandemics can force municipalities to reassess operations. “With COVID, it really made us look at, well, how are we really doing this?” John Klostermann, Dubuque’s public works director told Waste Dive. “How does it affect our workforce?” Haulers would be safest in a pandemic if they never contact trash or people — a precaution automated side loaders offer – based on public health guidance. That safety benefit magnifies the appeal of machinery, which was already gaining traction in part because it insulates operators from on-the-job injuries, according to customers and vendors. While pandemic-decimated municipal budgets and tighter capital spending among the private sector might slow investment in ASL vehicles, interest still remains and many expect the trend to continue long term. Watching an automated side loader in action feels like seeing kids master the claw arcade game and winning a teddy bear. When pulled up to the right spot, a mechanical arm creeps out from the truck to pinch, lift and flip carts until all the trash, recycling or organics empty out. Drivers stay inside the entire time — a benefit for a line of work where employees often still get injured lifting waste or being hit by vehicles. That latter issue continues to make collection one of the deadliest jobs in the U.S. with 36 North American workers dying on the job in 2019, according to the Solid Waste Association of North America. Adapting to ASLs The automated arm works best with carts of specific dimensions, placed at the curb in a standard format. And as Bangor, Maine transitions to ASL vehicles, the city government dropped off those standardized carts and educating residents on what collection day must look like for this new method to be a success. “We had multiple public meetings, we had demonstrations, we had so much PR, but people sometimes just miss it until it's actually being placed in front of their home,” said Gretchen Schaefer, the Bangor city councilor who chairs the infrastructure committee and answered a flood of last-minute questions from locals. General confusion aside, Schaefer still thinks the new trucks will make the hassle worthwhile. Not only will they hopefully cut down on workplace fatalities — a garbage truck fatally struck one collection worker in the area last year — but the new contract with Casella Waste Systems is also easier on Bangor's budget. The city will spend $35,000 less on waste services in the first year, with more cost reductions in the future. Some of those savings might also come from fewer workers’ compensation payouts as fewer people get injured on the job, Casella told the city. ASL vehicles also typically cut back on overall labor costs because the trucks need fewer people to operate. The council was concerned the new trucks might mean fewer jobs in the area, but Casella told the city it was struggling to find employees in the first place, Schaefer said. She also hopes the bins will help keep streets clean. Instead of trash heaps on the curbs that dogs and crows can get into, residents will have the 32- or 96-gallon carts to contain the waste. To prove to skeptical taxpayers the containers are big enough, Schaefer took photos of her 5’4” self next to the carts, which came up to her neck. Residents had other concerns. Some locals didn’t like the idea of rolling their carts across the street on pickup days, an extra step households might have to take if they live on smaller roads where the truck arm would only pass by on one side. One individual thought Bangor got too much snow and had a population too elderly to make maneuvering these carts possible. Schaefer reminded them other snowier Maine municipalities (with even older residents) had transitioned to ASL vehicles just fine. “I kind of just want to tell people, ‘just give it a month and see how it works,’” she said. Much of what motivated Bangor to make the switch also appeals to other haulers, according to Don Ross, vice president of sales and marketing for New Way Trucks and the McLaughlin Family Companies. New Way makes 11 kinds of waste collection vehicles, two of which are ASLs. In the past decade, the trucks have become more popular and Ross estimates between 25% and 30% of operating collection vehicles are automatic. Customers want to improve operator safety as well as their own collection process. Where a manual truck and its drivers might collect waste from 800 to 900 homes a day, an ASL vehicle can do 1,200 to 1,500. “It does equally as good at its first pickup as it does at its last pickup every day,” Ross said. Since these trucks need fewer people to get the same amount of work done, he added, the investment typically pays off in about two and a half to three years. At the start of the pandemic, New Way saw multiple inquiries about ASLs. Ross thinks some of this interest might have come from residential waste volumes increasing by 20% to 40%. Though Dubuque selected ASL carts before stay-at-home orders began, the 48-gallon (or larger) containers better manage household waste than the incompatible 34-gallon carts, which are often overflowing, Klostermann said. Other virus-specific motivators also might have spiked interest in ASL, Ross said. When people were unsure about how easily someone could contract the coronavirus via surfaces, contact-free collection seemed like a safeguard against potential infections. ASL vehicles also require fewer people for every route at a time when haulers wanted more social distancing among employees. Interest has stayed steady since the pandemic began, Ross said, though other reasons to put off purchases have also cropped up. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have clarified contact with infected surfaces is not considered the main mode of COVID-19 transmission. And if infection concerns have lessened in certain settings, financial ones have not. Though the trucks pay off over time, municipalities and haulers still have to make that upfront purchase. For some, budget cuts mean potential customers might not be able to buy the vehicles they wanted to. More municipalities and companies are also asking about rental options, Ross said. That’s what happened in Dubuque, where Klostermann said the Department of Public Works initially wanted to serve every resident with ASL collection. A budget cut by the pandemic left the office with enough funds to get one truck and enough bins to accommodate 15% of the city. Other municipalities are also questioning whether now is the time to purchase an ASL, Ross said, and some big haulers have delayed purchases until 2021. McNeilus has seen some similar trends. The manufacturer also offers ASLs alongside traditional front load and rear load trucks, and businesses collecting residential waste showed some initial interest in switching, said Jeff Koga, vice president and general manager of refuse collection vehicles for McNeilus. However, those picking up commercial waste weren’t pursuing new purchases as much due in part to prolonged work from home arrangements dampening commercial activity. “As businesses reopen, one thing you turn back on is the trash services,” Koga said. Automation still no replacement for safety culture The pandemic has also introduced and amplified pressing safety issues. ASL vehicles protect employees from distracted drivers, who kill on average five to eight waste workers a year, said David Biderman, CEO and executive director of SWANA. But in a three-week period stretching from March to April, 16 accidents involving solid waste employees and their trucks killed 18 people, eight of whom were on the job. “It was crazy,” Biderman said. These accidents might have happened because operators were distracted while working the first month of the pandemic. Future incidents could be curbed if well-known safety protocols — like collection route designs that keep employees from crossing streets — are promptly and more efficiently implemented, he said. SWANA needs to help smaller haulers achieve these standards, Biderman said, because they typically lack the necessary resources or expertise to do it on their own. It’s a problem that plays out on his own street, where Biderman has seen a local, smaller hauler pick up neighborhood waste without a high-visibility vest on. “And I'm certain he’s not wearing a safety belt when he's driving in the truck, for that matter because I've spoken to him about it,” he said. Drivers and waste collectors have similar concerns. Chuck Stiles, the director of the Teamsters Solid Waste and Recycling Division, knows ASLs mean fewer employees and union members. Being in the cab of the truck is safer than being on the street, however, and the vehicles prolong the careers of existing employees. “Believe me, your shoulders, your back and your knees appreciate the side loader,” Stiles said. But there are safety issues the Teamsters want to see addressed during the pandemic that an ASL vehicle alone can’t fix. When COVID-19 was spreading, the union wanted concrete policies from different haulers outlining how workers would be protected from the virus. How would companies minimize exposure to disease-carrying trash, for example, or colleagues that might be sick? Though an ASL vehicle might solve some exposure and social distancing worries, Stiles said, workers are facing larger issues that need immediate solutions. Like Biderman, Stiles also wants workers to have better physical protections and knows smaller haulers struggle with this. The Teamsters have best practice guides, and to Stiles it’s obvious why companies need to pay for the right gear and careful hauling. “A good driver makes you a lot of money, so why not take care of your investment?” In theory, ASLs can address many of these issues. New Way thinks the vehicles hold some appeal because they promote isolated work, and both Bangor and Dubuque hope the trucks will keep their workers physically safe too. “If we can keep workers in the cab and not have them get out, that would help us out,” Dubuque's Klostermann said. But manual collection will be around for a long time in some form. New Way Trucks still sells just as many manual rear loaders as they did before automated versions arrived. Ross thinks that’s because some settings will never be appropriate for automated trucks, like dense cities missing clear uniform spots to leave carts and full of parked cars to dodge. The arms also can’t handle yard waste bags or bulky items, like furniture. With this in mind, industry professionals say budgeting and educating around safety will remain a high priority — regardless of what trucks are on the road. “I think the movement from manual rear load to automated is more of a long-term situation,” Biderman said. “But responding to the more frequent incidents that occur and getting lessons learned about them out to the frontline as quickly as possible — that's something you can do at the same time.”

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Про зміни до Податкового кодексу України в частині оцінки об'єктів нерухомості

archinfo — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 09:24:44 GMT

Законопроектом №2047 запропоновано внести зміни до Податкового кодексу щодо ліквідації корупційної схеми у сфері реєстрації інформації зі звітів про оцінку об'єктів нерухомості. У Верховній Раді зареєстровано проект Закону №2047 "Про внесення змін до Податкового кодексу України щодо ліквідації корупційної схеми у сфері реєстрації інформації зі звітів про оцінку об'єктів нерухомості". Законопроект розроблено з метою вдосконалення чинного антикорупційного, податкового та оціночного законодавства шляхом ліквідації корупційної схеми в сфері реєстрації інформації зі звітів про оцінку об'єктів нерухомості та припинення здирництва коштів з оцінювачів та нотаріусів на користь приватних структур за користування належної державі Єдиною базою даних звітів про оцінку, повернення оцінювачам та нотаріусам прямого доступу до Єдиної бази даних звітів про оцінку, приведення сфери роботи національної системи оцінки майна у відповідність до європейських стандартів та вимог демократичного співтовариства. Із прийняттям законопроекту: 1) Приватні електронні майданчики будуть вилучені з процедури реєстрації та перевірки реєстрації інформації звітів про оцінку об'єктів нерухомості. Таким чином, оцінювачі та нотаріуси разом із суспільство будуть звільнені від необхідності платити приватним електронним майданчикам за нав'язані їм "послуги", а майданчикам буде перекрито канал безпідставних надприбутків за рахунок українців, що бажають відчужити свою нерухомість. 2) Всі авторизовані електронні майданчики будуть відключені від Єдиної бази даних звітів про оцінку (Єдиної бази звітів про оцінку). 3) Реєстрації в Єдиній базі звітів про оцінку підлягатиме не лише інформація зі звітів про оцінку, а й самі звіти, завдяки чому буде підтримано цивілізований конкурентний ринок оцінки майна та суттєво ускладнено діяльність недоброчесних оцінювачів, які умисно спотворюють дані про об'єкти оцінки з метою заниження їх вартості та мінімізації бази оподаткування операцій з нерухомістю (т.зв. "занижувачів"). Буде припинена практика, коли: оцінювачі-шахраї заповнюють форми реєстрації звітів про оцінку в Єдиній базі без написання реальних звітів; така інформація часто є викривленою для введення автоматичного модулю та Фонду державного майна в оману; інформації зі звіту недостатньо для повноцінної перевірки (рецензування) звіту. 4) Реєстрація звітів про оцінку об'єктів нерухомості та перевірка їх реєстрації буде здійснюватися оцінювачами та нотаріусами напряму через Єдину базу звітів про оцінку. Такий прямий доступ до бази оцінювачам та нотаріусам поновить Фонд державного майна України як адміністратор бази. 5) Єдина база звітів про оцінку додатково забезпечуватиме автоматичне оприлюднення всієї інформації про об'єкт нерухомості та його вартість в режимі відкритого, прямого неавторизованого доступу з можливістю завантаження (крім відомостей, що становлять персональні дані замовника звіту та/або власника майна відповідно до Закону України "Про захист персональних даних"). 6) Звіти про оцінку зберігатимуться в Єдиній базі в електронній формі. 7) Державний бюджет України отримає додаткові надходження шляхом спрямування плати суб'єктів оціночної діяльності за реєстрацію звітів про оцінку та інформації з них до Єдиної бази звітів про оцінку в розмірі 0,5 відсотка від мінімальної заробітної плати у місячному розмірі, встановленої на 1 січня календарного року, за одну операцію (замість здирництва за це 1800 грн. на користь приватних електронних майданчиків, як це відбувається зараз). 8) Виконання нотаріусами перевірки факту реєстрації звіту про оцінку в Єдиній базі звітів про оцінку та присвоєння йому унікального реєстраційного номера стане безоплатним. 9) Для суспільства та професійної спільноти (оцінювачів, нотаріусів, антикорупційних організацій та контролюючих органів) Єдина база звітів про оцінку стане по-справжньому відкритим, безкоштовним, зручним та інтерактивним сервісом (замість щотижневого оприлюднення неповних електронних таблиць у ручному режимі). 10) Запроваджуються дієві санкції для оцінювачів, що фальсифікують інформацію зі звітів про оцінку. 11) Буде вилучено норму, якою легалізується безпідставне стягнення коштів з оцінювачів та нотаріусів за цінами, свавільно встановленими електронними майданчиками, у період з 18.07.2018 р. по 01.01.2019 р. 12) Буде вилучено норму про блокування всіх розслідувань Антимонопольного комітету України проти порушень законодавства про захист економічної конкуренції із використанням інституту інтелектуальної власності. Крім того, законопроектом пропонується актуалізувати та привести у відповідність до міжнародних стандартів оцінки понятійний апарат в правовому регулювання сфери оцінки для цілей оподаткування. Очікується, що цей Закон набере чинності з дня, наступного за днем його опублікування.

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