Landfill Levies

摘要

Landfill levies (or taxes, depending on where you live) are added to the tipping fee at a landfill to increase the cost of disposal to a point where diversion becomes more economically attractive. There are a number of reasons why jurisdictions impose landfill levies. They help preserve landfill capacity which is expensive (or in some locations virtually impossible to replace) and they support local industries that need recycled materials as feedstocks. (Landfill bans are also used to achieve this objective.) Levies may help meet regulatory obligations (e.g., EU Landfill Directive; EU Packaging Directive, etc.), raise funds for diversion infrastructure and/or simply to meet diversion targets.