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� Operators of Disposal Activities;
Operators of disposal activities are the accountable people who pay the levy.
Disposal activities include landfill facilities. A landfill facility means a waste
disposal site on which the disposal of waste has taken, or is taking, place.
41.5 Monitoring and Measurement Techniques Applied
A landfill operator is required to maintain a written record in respect of each vehicle
load of waste accepted into a landfill facility for the purpose of disposal, and such
records must include:
� the date;
� the name of the carrier;
� the vehicle registration number;
� a description of the waste, (with reference, where practicable, to the relevant
code set out in the European Waste Catalogue);
� the quantity of the waste in tonnes;
� other information with respect to the calculation of the quantity of waste
concerned, in the absence of a weighbridge; and
� a written daily record of the quantity of waste (if any) disposed of which is
considered to be exempt from the levy.
Local Authorities implement the landfill levy, to the extent that they operate landfills,
and are required to remit their levy liability directly to the Department of Environment,
Heritage and Local Government (DoEHLG).
Operators of private landfill facilities are required to remit their levy liability to the
relevant local authority in whose functional area the facility is located, the authority
will then transfer the revenue to the DoEHLG.
The DoEHLG publishes an Environment Funds Account Report. This report details the
income from the environmental levy on the landfill of waste and also from the
environmental levy on plastic bags.
The income from the Landfill levy is a direct measure of all waste being disposed of in
landfill. This allows the DoEHLG to examine if this levy actually disincentives waste
contractors (public and private) from disposing of waste in landfills. However, the
income from the Landfill levy is not a measure of C&D waste used for engineered
purposes at landfill facilities.
41.6 Evaluation Studies Available
The effect on prevention of C&D waste has not been possible to measure. Indeed, the
quality of the available data would make such an estimation extremely difficult, and
no survey based work has been undertaken to understand how the levy may have
changed behaviour.
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