Increased waste dumping tariffs to encourage separation - ministry
Waste dumping tariffs for private industry and other waste generating entities increased as from today so as to encourage separation, the Resources Ministry said.
The ministry said in a statement that the new tariffs include a 20 euro increase for each tonne of waste going into the engineered landfill, as well as a reduction to 50c for each tonne of separated waste taken to Sant'Antnin Waste Recycling Plant.
Domestic waste which can be taken to a Civic Amenity Site can still be taken to these centres free of charge. Wasteserv was, however, implementing controls for this service not to be abused by commercial entities.
The ministry said the government was conscious of the need for engineered landfills to laste for the longest possible number of years, so to encourage waste separation, fees had to go up to increase the benefits to those who wanted to recycle waste.
These changes substantially increased initiatives taken by councils to separate waste in the localities. Councils had their fees increased in October.
The government was also in talks with the representatives of waste collectors for these to equip their vehicles with scales which would weigh the waste on site. These talks were at an advanced stage.
This measure was another step towards the implementation of the polluter pays principle.
The changes in fees, the ministry said, encouraged separation while protecting the environment.
These changes should also lead to a reduction in the amount of waste going to an engineered landfill, which cost WasteServ 30 euros per tonne to manage according to EU directives.
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lgalea
Apr 2nd 2010, 08:59
Smply increasing tax revenues to pay for the vandalization of our capital city with the Gonezi-Piano vandalization project and the massive debt the country has been led into by the incompetent PN governments.
Carmel cilia
Apr 2nd 2010, 08:18
In this piece of news the author did not have the courage to mention that the increase was from 90eurocents per ton to 20 euros.
Mr. Debono I would have liked you to ask your government what these new taxes are going to be used for.
G.Debono
Apr 2nd 2010, 11:35
Carmel Cilia
Before telling me to ask "MY" government. Please note, this is not my government, and I did not vote for it. I've been writing here for ages that we need a 3rd party in parliament to keep the other 2 in check.
Now tell me Mr. Cilia - ask your prefered party - I assume Labour (inkapaci daqs il-PN jekk mhux aghar, and they will do the same, but for some unknown reason that time it will be ok for you). How will it manage not to increase taxes, keep the price of fuel low, gas low, not charge taxes on cars, not increasing other taxes to compensate for the lost revenue, etc... and still keep Malta going? Mhux ovja li qed jitmejjel bik - Joseph Muscat just wants your vote to gain power - it is power he is after to satisfy his ego - he does not care about you or gays or lesbians. Once he's up there, you can all go back to your holes - as the PN voters had to do during this legislation.
So the answer is simple - never let any one party have absolute power - Vote AD
C.camilleri
Apr 2nd 2010, 07:58
What is the price for a normal skip used by small business going to be now?
This is another tax, all that is left to tax is the air that we breath under this government.
Dennis Zammit
Apr 1st 2010, 22:37
And when does Wasteserv or the Ministry plan to find a solution for the various hazardous waste held at local production plants? The incinerator is still now accepting their waste?
v gauci
Apr 1st 2010, 21:25
x'dwejjaq ta pajjiz.
Th. Sammut
Apr 1st 2010, 20:37
I bet this is an April's fool joke, as it does not make any sense
fbonello
Apr 1st 2010, 19:46
@ R Axisa
Ovvju hux, ghax ma jistghux ilahhqu mal-hajja!
R Axisa
Apr 1st 2010, 18:17
Dal-gvern imissu johrog ikanta "Qalbna Safja", ghax kull meta jgholli l-prezzijiet u jintaxxa aktar lill-poplu, dejjem isib xi skuza biex jghatti ruhu biha! It-tfal iz-zghar jaghmlu hekk, kull meta jaghmlu xi haga hazina isibu xi skuza biex jghattu dak li jkunu ghamlu! Tal-misthija!
Jista' l-gvern jghidilna liema skuza sab biex gholla l-pagi tal-ministri? Ghax jien qatt ma smajt ir-raguni.
Gordon Farrugia
Apr 1st 2010, 16:00
another pitiful attempt at boosting tax revenues - the sin is that the little countryside and valleys we still have will soon be the new dumping ground!! who will want to pay EUR20 per tonne when it is so much simpler/cheaper to dump everything anywhere (that's not me, that's how most maltese reason!) - why penalise people who are trying to do the correct thing and get the waste to a proper place!!?
Paul Barrett
Apr 1st 2010, 17:20
Totally agree - all the new rate will do is encourage "fly-tipping".
It an environmental clean up is really the aim, they should pay the waste contractors per ton for bringing in rubbish to a central area, employ people to separate the waste and sell the separated waste to generate funds.
J.Scicluna
Apr 1st 2010, 15:59
How touching to have such a caring Government!
Waste dumping tariffs to encourage us to seperate waste...
High water and electricity bills to encourage us to use less...
High fuel prices to encourage us to defend the environment...
High medicide prices to encourage us to stay healthy...
LOW wages not to lead us into temptation...
etc etc etc
Gordon Farrugia
Apr 1st 2010, 20:57
i agree haha - are we living in Malta or in communist China!!? ;)
G.Debono
Apr 1st 2010, 15:58
I am all for the increase in price - pollution price should be high.
However I am against silly statements such as ...to encourage seperation. This is simply not true. When have smokers stoped smoking because of frequent duty increase? Same with Alcohol.
What will happen is that the operators will push the price onto the consumer and they will eventually have to pay for the increase in price.
Had the resources ministry really wanted seperation - they would have made the operators seperate the material and if when offloaded, more than a certain % is not seperated from the rest of the refuse, than they get a €25,000 fine.
This is another tax onto the other end of the chain (the normal consumer) under a differernt name. Although as I said, I agree with the polluter pays principle so I am not against it, I am just calling a spade a spade rather than weave around as the resource ministry statement is doing.