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The setting up of a pilot scale pay-as-you-throw waste tariff in Aveiro, Portugal
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Over the last 20 years solid waste has become an important issue in municipalities and counties and a
problem for societies aspiring to economic, social and environmental sustainability. The new, recently
approved Waste Framework Directive and Landfilling Directive have even higher targets related to
municipal waste recycling and landfilling, and critical changes need to take place if European targets
are to be realistically achieved. Pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) waste tariffs are an instrument that can
help achieving recycling targets. PAYT works by linking the payment of a waste-collection tariff with
the amount of waste discarded so that the payment increases when more waste is produced: “the more
one discards, the more one pays”. This work shows the early stages of PAYT implementation in pilot
scale in a municipality in Portugal. The changes carried out in the collection infrastructures are
described, as well as other complementary measures that were simultaneously implemented, namely
reinforcement of the collection of dry recyclables and promotion of home composting.
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Municipal waste Preparing for re-use and recycling PAYT Separate collections Waste tariffs Closed-access container Collective collection Multi-building