Data released by waste management company Veolia, shows that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) will ‘throw away’ as much as £463 million in landfill tax during 2013.
By sending waste to landfill, rather than recycling it, SMEs are likely to fall foul of landfill tax which, as of 1 April 2013, stands at £72 per tonne, up from £64 in 2012.
Veolia warns that unless SMEs recycle more, that figure will only increase as landfill tax rises to £80 per tonne in 2014/15.
Chief Executive Officer of Veolia, Estelle Brachlianoff, said: We have now reached a stage where it is much more expensive to send waste to landfill than it is to recycle. The solution is to develop a recycling mindset in the workplace based on segregating materials at source.
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