Given the Dutch are paying around E$107.00 a tonne to landfill their waste it seems the Dutch company paying IGE E$20 a tonne to take it off their hands is getting a good deal .
"In 2001, landfilling accounted for 8
% of MSW. In 2000 there was a sharp increase of the landfill tax
from
EUR
13 to 65/tonne and therefore a significant incentive of reducing landfilling had already
been created, but
it is not reflected in Figure 2.5 because the figure
only
covers the years after 2000.
In 2002, the landfill tax was further increased to
EUR
79/tonne, and the
following
year the percentage
of MSW landfilled dropped significantly to 2.7
% of MSW generated
that year. This decrease can also
be partially explained by the new regulation presented in the first
National Waste Management Plan
2002
-
2012 (LAP, 2003),
which bans direct disposal of mixed municipal waste to landfill. In the
following years, 2004
-
2007,
the landfill tax was increased marginally whereas
landfilling levels
stayed low at
around 2
% of MSW generation. From 2008, landfilling starts to decrease again at a fast
pace, almost halving its percentages every year, starting from 2.1
% in 2007 and reac
hing only 0.3
%
in 2010. Significant change in taxation happened only in 2010 when the landfill tax skyrocketed to
EUR
107.5/tonne, being the highest rate in Europe?
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