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enclosure; and ii) municipal waste landfills are operated without a landfill gas<br />

collection and treatment system. 908<br />

The legislation clearly states that the aim <strong>of</strong> the waste tax is to finance the<br />

containment and treatment <strong>of</strong> contaminated sites. Austria is the only European<br />

country where revenues from a landfill tax are exclusively used for this purpose. 909<br />

The activities supported include:<br />

741<br />

� The identification <strong>of</strong> problem sites;<br />

� The administration <strong>of</strong> those sites;<br />

� The direct containment and clean-up <strong>of</strong> sites;<br />

� The construction, or upgrading, <strong>of</strong> waste treatment plants at landfill sites; and<br />

� The development <strong>of</strong> new technologies for containment or treatment.<br />

It is the owner or operator <strong>of</strong> the landfill site who is responsible for paying the tax, or<br />

anyone carrying out structural work.<br />

The Ordinance on Landfilling was introduced in 1996. This legislation was introduced<br />

with the intention <strong>of</strong> banning certain materials from landfilling and included wastes<br />

such as:<br />

� Sludgy, pasty and fine-grained waste;<br />

� Liquid waste (except leachate);<br />

� High inflammable and explosive waste;<br />

� Gasses under pressure;<br />

� Substances leaching heavily on contact with water;<br />

� Infectious waste from hospitals or similar medical; and<br />

� <strong>Waste</strong> for which the content <strong>of</strong> hazardous substances exceeds certain limit<br />

values.<br />

In addition, the Ordinance set a limit on waste which could be landfilled that stated<br />

that a ban applied to any waste with a carbon content in excess <strong>of</strong> 5%. This would<br />

have implied an effective ban on all residual waste. However, an exemption was<br />

explicitly designed for waste ‘originating from mechanical-biological pre-treatment,<br />

that is disposed in separated areas within a mass waste landfill site, if the upper<br />

calorific value gained by combustion <strong>of</strong> the dry matter is below 6000 kJ/kg. The<br />

mixing <strong>of</strong> waste originating from mechanical-biological pre-treatment with materials<br />

908 EIONET: European Topic Centre on Resource and <strong>Waste</strong> <strong>Management</strong> (2007) Austrian <strong>Waste</strong><br />

Factsheet, Accessed 16 th October 2008,<br />

http://waste.eionet.europa.eu/facts/factsheets_waste/Austria<br />

909 Umweltbundesamt (2000) Deponieabgaben im europäischen Vergleich, Federal Environment<br />

Agency - Austria, Vienna.<br />

<strong>International</strong> <strong>Review</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Waste</strong> <strong>Policy</strong>: Annexes

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