garbage fee in Tbilisi

Georgia lifts photo ban inside courtrooms

By | March 6th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: , , |

TBILISI, DFWatch–The parliament in Georgia today passed a law which allows filming and taking photographs inside courtrooms. Also at today’s plenary session, parliamentarians decided to cancel fees for kindergartens and to separate the garbage fee from the […]

Trash fee will be reduced

By | October 26th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Tbilisi City Council has solved the issue of trash collection fee, which is calculated based on how much electricity a household consumes. On Thursday, the council decided to reduce the trash tariff to half for five months from November till May. […]

Garbage fee system is still under review

By | October 12th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Many in Tbilisi had hoped that city hall would do away with an unpopular new system to make the garbage collection fee dependent on the electric bill, but at Friday’s session it emerged that despite the opposition’s election victory it is not certain […]

Tbilisi garbage fees may be reduced

By | October 11th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Tbilisi City Hall has started a process that could lead to a controversial mechanism being abolished involving the garbage collection fee being tied to the electric bill. The system was introduced in late 2011, and is one of the most controversial […]

As winter freeze hits Tbilisi, the garbage fee jumps

By | February 8th, 2012|Categories: Economy, News|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Among all the other problems the weather is causing, Tbilisi citizens have one more worry: Their garbage fee has increased dramatically. A few months ago, a law amendment made the municipal garbage fee dependent on the electricity bill, so the more […]