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Figure 54-3: Evolution in Landfill <strong>of</strong> Household and Industrial <strong>Waste</strong> in Flanders<br />

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incineration evolution<br />

1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005<br />

54.5 Implementation Costs<br />

incineration industrial waste incineration household waste<br />

Landfill and incineration bans can impose the financing <strong>of</strong> more expensive waste<br />

treatment or waste recycling technologies on waste generators.<br />

The aim <strong>of</strong> the landfill and incineration levy is not to finance the MINA-fund, but to<br />

steer waste to better waste treatment techniques. The revenues drop, or remain<br />

stable, even when each year, higher tariffs are used (see Figure 54-4).<br />

54.6 Effects on Technical Change / Innovation<br />

In Germany, landfill bans have been imposed with a clearly marked transition period<br />

between publication in the state courier and entry into force. This has created some<br />

adverse effects with landfills that have tried to use all remaining permitted capacity,<br />

but in general it has stirred the waste treatment industry to develop and install<br />

alternative waste treatment facilities.<br />

In Flanders, the landfill and incineration bans entered into force from the moment<br />

they were published, but the implementing mechanism allowed for individual<br />

exemptions as well. The effect is that industry has focused on addressing these<br />

exemptions, based on capacity problems, rather than on installing new technologies.

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