Copenhagen - Several municipalities have difficulties in processing applications for exemption from a new fee for recycling sites. Before the summer break, the Danish Environmental Protection Agency has issued a guidance to assist municipalities to get to the bottom of the applications.
The government has signed an agreement with all parties in parliament except the Unity List on a new organization of the waste sector. The agreement shall in particular ensure that households do not pay corporate waste. As a result of the agreement, all businesses pay a fee to their municipality to dispose of waste at recycling sites. Some companies will have the right to be exempted from the fee.
So EPA created a guide that specifies in which cases may be exempted from the fee. It was sent to all municipalities first of juli 2010 and has been published on the EPA website. "Hopefully it will mean that people can quickly responded to their requests,", says Head Dorte Hermansen from the Environment Agency.
The purpose of that part of the political agreement concerning fees is very basic:
1. to ensure that producing the waste also pays to get it handled. So accordance with the polluter pays in principle.
2. to achieve greater uniformity and transparency in waste fees, as households and businesses can see what they pay for.
3. to exclude the firms which do not have a significant waste production or can prove that they are not using recycling areas.
Translation: Google
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