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Grã-Bretanha precisa de imposto para incentivar reciclagem, aponta relatório (em inglês)
2006-11-21
Britain needs to tax disposable and hard-to-recycle products to encourage manufacturers to change what they make, according to a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). The report calls for a new tax on items such as throw-away cameras, disposable razors and non-rechargeable batteries following the success of European countries who have imposed similar taxes with striking results.
In 1996, Belgium introduced a 5 pound charge on all disposable cameras that were not recycled. Now 80 percent of these items are recycled. "We have become an increasingly throw-away society, reliant on cheap, disposable and hard-to-recycle goods, adding each year to the UK's 300 million tonne rubbish mountain," Nick Pearce, the IPPR director, said.
"Business needs to take greater responsibility for the whole life of products by paying a product tax that goes towards payment for disposal." Pearce said taxing disposable products was the best way to stop companies from making them.
The report was published ahead of Chancellor Gordon Brown's pre-budget report and shortly after a poll in the Times newspaper found Britons did not recycle as much as many of their European neighbours. While 76 percent of people said they recycled everything they could, only 22.5 percent of domestic waste actually is re-used -- a third of that achieved in the Netherlands.
The IPPR report said the tax should also apply to drink cartons such as those made by Tetra Pak because they are hard to recycle. At present about 4 billion cartons are used in Britain, but less than 10 percent are recycled. In contrast, the figure in Germany is 65 percent -- because there is a 1.5 pence charge on cartons to pay for collection and recycling. "Taxing disposable products to encourage consumers to switch to more durable alternatives, or taxing products to pay for their recycling, will give manufacturers no choice but to ultimately design out waste," said Julie Hill of the Green Alliance.
(Planet Ark, 20/11/2006)
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39072/story.htm
In 1996, Belgium introduced a 5 pound charge on all disposable cameras that were not recycled. Now 80 percent of these items are recycled. "We have become an increasingly throw-away society, reliant on cheap, disposable and hard-to-recycle goods, adding each year to the UK's 300 million tonne rubbish mountain," Nick Pearce, the IPPR director, said.
"Business needs to take greater responsibility for the whole life of products by paying a product tax that goes towards payment for disposal." Pearce said taxing disposable products was the best way to stop companies from making them.
The report was published ahead of Chancellor Gordon Brown's pre-budget report and shortly after a poll in the Times newspaper found Britons did not recycle as much as many of their European neighbours. While 76 percent of people said they recycled everything they could, only 22.5 percent of domestic waste actually is re-used -- a third of that achieved in the Netherlands.
The IPPR report said the tax should also apply to drink cartons such as those made by Tetra Pak because they are hard to recycle. At present about 4 billion cartons are used in Britain, but less than 10 percent are recycled. In contrast, the figure in Germany is 65 percent -- because there is a 1.5 pence charge on cartons to pay for collection and recycling. "Taxing disposable products to encourage consumers to switch to more durable alternatives, or taxing products to pay for their recycling, will give manufacturers no choice but to ultimately design out waste," said Julie Hill of the Green Alliance.
(Planet Ark, 20/11/2006)
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39072/story.htm
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