What are the recycling incentives currently available? – Is use of landfill tax revenue to be fed back into waste disposal/recycling processes?
Central government has introduced some limited funding initiatives to local authorities to assist in efforts to increase recycling. Local authorities have to submit bids for this funding, the bids being assessed and awards made accordingly to enable the implementation of a range of local schemes. Project Integra was successful in securing a total of 5 million in the 2002 biding round As a result of changes to the use of Landfill Tax funds referred to under Question 3 above, the extent of the available financial support to waste awareness, waste minimisation and recycling has been increased. The remit of WRAP has been widened to include waste awareness and waste minimisation and they are establishing priorities, with a view to implementation by the public or private sectors being undertaken via a bidding process. In addition to the financial incentives designed to promote recycling, there is also financial disincentive to not recycling. The landfill tax, which presently stands at 14 per
