{"id":7101,"date":"2021-12-15T10:06:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T10:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ieabioenergy.com\/newtask36\/?p=7101"},"modified":"2021-12-15T10:06:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T10:06:25","slug":"msw-incineration-fee-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/task36.ieabioenergy.com\/news\/msw-incineration-fee-in-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"MSW incineration fee in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"
How to stimulate waste prevention and promote material recovery? Can a combustion fee be part of the solution?<\/strong><\/p>\n Municipal\u00a0solid\u00a0waste (MSW) incineration (Waste-to-Energy,\u00a0WtE) is excluded from the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). Some authorities, including Norway’s, have been considering the introduction of a specific combustion fee on\u00a0WtE. In such a scheme,\u00a0WtE\u00a0plants will have to purchase CO2\u00a0<\/sub>equivalent emission credits for each tonne of fossil CO2<\/sub> emitted when processing MSW. The main rationale is that the increased cost of incineration will act as an incentive to reduce waste production and to promote sorting and material recycling of fossil-based waste fractions, mainly plastic (and textiles). These trends could contribute both to climate change mitigation and EU material recovery targets \u2013 6 5% by 2035 for MSW. The current MSW treatment situation in the EU is summarised in the picture below and shows that countries with high material recycling are most often countries with high\u00a0WtE.<\/p>\n