Recycling allows businesses to avoid impact of tax increase
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 09:37:35
This month the amount of tax that businesses will have to pay to send waste to landfill rose by 8 per tonne, bringing the total to 72.
This is a not insignificant amount and means that for many companies, the amount they are having to spend on waste disposal is unsustainable in the long term.
Belper News reports that companies in the county of Derbyshire will spend 52 million over the next 12 months on landfill waste disposal, which means that the national total is well into the hundreds of millions of pounds.
The latest tax rise is identical to the 8 that Chancellor George Osborne put onto landfill disposal in 2012, which means businesses have seen costs per tonne rise from 56 to 72, in a little over 12 months.
Of course, the businesses that do not want to shoulder the increased costs can turn to recycling in order to reduce the expense associated with disposing of waste products.
Much of the tonnage sent to landfill can actually be recycled, although in the commercial sector, it can sometimes be difficult to encourage organisations to take the greener, more sustainable route, because it often requires a change in policies.
While companies may not have been willing to make a bigger effort when it comes to recycling in the past, the financial pressure imposed on traditional waste disposal by tax rises could be just the kind of motivation they need to alter their course and start being more eco-friendly.
Businesses not only need to think about how to better dispose of commonly recycled materials, but also have an added responsibility to recycle electronics equipment.
Many companies already recycle their old PCs and mobile phones, but these trends can still be pushed further.
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