Transport companies to pass on waste disposal fees to clients
Dubai Municipality will start charging firms ‘pay as you throw fee’ from May 17
Dubai is gearing up to implement new waste disposal fees on companies transporting and dumping rubbish in landfills and treatment plants, which the latter say, will be passed on to their clients generating waste as a “pay as you throw fee”.
Yesterday, Dubai Municipality organised a customer forum with the waste collection and transport companies to announce details about the implementation of the waste disposal fees which will come into effect from May 17.
Officials from the Waste Management Department informed the companies that they will have to register a bank account with the municipality for deducting the waste disposal fee every time their trucks dump the rubbish at municipal facilities.
Though officials did not provide the amount to be deposited by these companies, company representatives told Gulf News that this will range between Dh3,000 to Dh500,000 per month depending on the operations of the companies.
“It will be a heavy burden
on companies to pay this fee in advance,” said the business development manager of a company.
“We are already struggling to get payment from our clients. Sometimes they take months to pay us. How am I going to generate money in advance for making payments to the municipality?” the manager lamented.
Representatives of several companies told Gulf News that they would be passing on the new fees to their clients.
Their clients include managements of commercial establishments such as food and beverage outlets, factories, public and private institutions, building contractors as well as residential communities and freehold properties.