Report urges tax regime to curb disposable goods

23 November 2006
 
The Government should tax disposable and hard-to-recycle products to encourage manufacturers to produce less waste, according to a new report by the Institute for Public Policy Research and Green Alliance.
The report, A zero waste UK, comes ahead of the chancellor’s pre-budget report and the Government’s waste strategy, and follows environment minister Ben Bradshaw’s calls for consumers to ‘dump’ excess waste at the checkout last week (Surveyor, 16 November).
The report proposes giving local authorities ‘pay-as-you-throw’ powers to charge for collecting non-recyclable household waste as the best way to meet current recycling targets.
This will help England, which currently recycles 27% of its waste, to catch up with Europe’s top recycler, the Netherlands, which recycles 65% .
The report recommends a new tax targeting products such as throw-away cameras, disposable razors and non-rechargeable batteries.
The recommendation follows the success of schemes in Sweden, Denmark and Belgium where the use of disposable products has fallen because of imposing similar taxes. At present, about four billion cartons are used in the UK each year, but less than 10% of them are recycled.
Nick Pearce, director of ippr, said: ‘Business needs to take greater responsibility for the whole life of products, by paying a product tax that goes towards payment for disposal. ‘This is only fair if we are going to introduce “pay-as-you-throw” charges for collecting household rubbish.’

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