Question 14051 — waste

Summary

Ms. Sylvie Ferrer alerts the Minister of Ecological Transition, Biodiversity and International Negotiations on Climate and Nature to the particularly worrying increase in the general tax on polluting activities (TGAP) applicable to waste, which weighs heavily on local authorities. The scheduled increase in TGAP prices between 2019 and 2030, reaching on average nearly 400% overall communities, leads to a considerable increase in the cost of waste treatment. This development results in an increase in local taxation or the price of the public waste management service, thus placing an increasing financial burden on taxpayers. This situation is all the more questionable as it concerns not only non-recyclable residual waste, but also recyclable waste, under the responsibility of eco-organizations which do not achieve their selective collection and recycling objective. It is therefore the communities which assume the financial consequences, in contradiction with the “polluter pays” principle. Territories engaged in proactive approaches to waste reduction and incentive pricing are thus penalized. This is particularly the case of the Community of Communes of Val d'Arros, in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, which has implemented concrete actions in an incentive approach to reduce household waste among users. By placing most of the financial effort on local communities and taxpayers, this fiscal trajectory seems to replace the principle of "polluter pays" with that of "taxpayer pays", without the responsibility of producers and failing eco-organizations is not involved. Rather than sanctioning failing eco-organizations, the Government has chosen, under pressure from marketers, to increase taxes on a basic local public service. Consequently, she asks it if it finally intends to sanction eco-organizations effectively and in a dissuasive manner for non-achieved trajectories which nevertheless fall under of European bonds rather than financially sanctioning local authorities and taxpayers.

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