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BUSINESS RESOURCE EFFICIENCY & WASTE

The 2003 Budget announced that the standard rate of landfill tax would increase by at least £3 per tonne each year on the way to a medium to long-term rate of £35 per tonne. The Government committed to introduce the increases in a way that was revenue-neutral to business as a whole.

Landfill tax back to business

The Government Spending Review of 2004 announced that the additional revenues will be used to fund business support programmes especially resource efficiency, including waste minimisation and diversion from landfill. Working with business stakeholders DEFRA has identified a package of resource efficiency measures to use this funding. This is the Business Resource Efficiency and Waste (BREW) Programme.

The BREW Programme

This programme ensures that additional Landfill Tax generated will incentivise businesses to reduce their waste going to landfill and assist the development of ways to achieve this. Expansion of existing programmes such as that delivered by ourselves which has already proved successful is the mechanism by which this will be achieved.

Click on the links above to visit any of the relevant sites or contact our Resource Efficiency Team on 01254 669030.