Dublin - The Economic and Social Research Istitute Dublin has published its report - 'An Economic Approach to Municipal Waste Management Policy in Ireland' - which provides a roadmap for managing municipal waste in an efficient manner that minimises the costs to society.

The roadmap contains policy in two important results: a proposed mechanism to meet the Landfill Directive targets for 2010, 2013 and 2016; and a methodology for setting waste levies for landfill, incineration and mechanical biological treatment (“MBT”).

* A cap and trade system is advocated for the meeting of Landfill Directive targets, where the cap is based on these targets and the permits to deposit waste in landfill are awarded to existing users of landfill based on 2009 data. Gradually over the period to 2016 an increasing proportion of the landfill permits would be auctioned off instead of being given free to existing users of landfill, so that by 2016 it would reach 100 percent.

* In terms of setting levies for incineration, landfill and MBT based on externalities, the new approach is to: first, ensure consistency across different sources of externalities such as MBT, cement kilns, power plants and so on; and, second, to consider only unpriced externalities, thus avoiding double regulation and double counting. Based on these considerations levies are estimated considering only methane and disamenities and the results are as follows:

- Landfill: Euro 44.24 to Euro 54.89 per tonne
- Urban Incineration: Euro 4.22 to Euro 5.07 per tonne
- Rural Incineration: Euro 0.42 to Euro 0.50 per tonne
- MBT: Euro 0.92 to Euro 1.45 per tonne.

More information about 'An Economic Approach to Municipal Waste Management Policy in Ireland' can be found at esri.ie.

Quelle: Economic and Social Research Istitute Dublin (ESRI)

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