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Well that is what the pay-as-you-throw is in effect
doing. I mean, you are usually paying volume-based
on the size of your disposal container
so the larger container (you have) - you get charge more the smaller container (you get charged less)
I think at one time they actually... and Samantha might know
from her research... they actually tried to do it based on weight
But, I think that was so much more complex
to individually individualize it to that extent
that I think most municipalities have simplified it by the size the container
Yeah, I I'm not aware of any (municipalities)
that have done it by weight although. Yeah I would imagine that would be
hard to do because you
to weigh every collection at the truck level is a big job
In a little bit of research I've done about the UK
where they have, as part of being in the EU (European Union), they have
a landfill directive in which they get
municipalities get taxed
for every ton (of waste) that goes to landfill
What they do is redistribute
the money that they would be paying in taxes to support
community-based alternative forms of diversion so
when I was over there there was a program that was being run in
it what would be their equivalent of public housing
and it was kind of an on-site program to collect recyclables and store
separated organics
that was operating right on site
the public housing and they were getting on a
per tonne basis kind of a refund from
the government in proportion to the amount of
landfill tax they were saving. So, that would be a different way if we
had such a thing in the United States. (But,) we don't!
Maybe redistributing costs for landfilling