ASA: Use BEHG’s income to advance technology

The Materials Specific Waste Processing Working Group (ASA) proposes to use future income from the waste sector generated under the Fuel Emissions Trading Act (BEHG) to promote technology. This can be found in the ASA’s statement on the BEHG Amendment Bill, which also aims to include waste incineration within the scope of the law. ASA is specifically thinking about research and development in chemical recycling and hydrogen use. In general, however, the ASA considers the extension of national trade in fuel emissions to include the incineration of municipal waste and the alternative fuels produced from it as completely unsuitable for climate protection.

In particular, the ASA anticipates that as a result of BEHG, waste charges will increase regularly in the coming years. The statement in the bill that the waste fee would only increase “in the lower single-digit percentage range” is false in the ASA’s opinion. If you compare the need for a specific increase in the study “The Effects of National Trade in Fuel Emissions on Waste Management” with currently defined waste fees, the result is a fee increase of between 2 and 29 percent. However, this does not take into account the additional costs that arise from thermal recycling of sieve flows from bio-waste treatment or unusable recycling residues…