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Our federal, state and local government hands out billions of dollars a year in tax breaks, accounting tricks, preferential pricing, and direct give-aways to the very companies that drive our disposal economy – mining and timber firms, waste haulers and landfill owners – and giving them an unnatural competitive advantage over sustainable, resource-conserving enterprises. Today, as successful recycling programs fall victim to the budget axe, waste industries and elected officials promote new tax breaks that will increase rather than reduce what we put in landfills and call the gas from this rotten choice “renewable energy.”
- Garbage is Not Renewable Energy
Use your purchasing power to choose only REC and carbon offset providers who provide waste-free energy. Learn More. - Welfare for Waste report (1999)
This 1999 report documents 15 tax and spending subsidies pouring $13 billion over 5 years into industries that compete directly with recycling. By GrassRoots Recycling Network, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Materials Efficiency Project, and Friends of the Earth. Download the report. [pdf]
Resources
- Taxpayer Subsidies
for Waste
- Subsidy
Basics
[off-site]
Earth Track
- Earth Track is the primary source for understanding how subsidies work. Earth Track provides information to help you determine how government interventions and subsidies affect energy markets, environmental quality, trade, and fiscal health.
- Leveling
the Playing Field for Recycling: A Policy Report on Virgin Material
Subsidies. [pdf]
[off-site]
- Doug Koplow and the National Policy Workgroup of the National Recycling Coalition. September 1999.
- New
Tax Breaks Threaten Recycling, Waste News, August 6, 2001. By
Doug Koplow.
- Editorial analyzes impact of proposed energy bills on long-term viability of recycling:
- Federal
Disincentives: A Study of Federal Tax Subsidies and Other Programs
Affecting Virgin Industries and Recycling
- Doug Koplow and Kevin Dietly. (Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation), August 1994. EPA 230-R-94-005. [off-site]
- Subsidy
Basics
[off-site]
Earth Track
- EPA Deregulation
- EPA's
Waste Deregulation Agenda
The Bush Administration is systematically attacking federal regulations protecting public health and the environment from solid and hazardous waste pollution. Together with attacks on protections for air and water, it is the most sweeping federal deregulation agenda since the days of James Watt and the Reagan Administration.
- EPA's
Waste Deregulation Agenda
- Articles and Links
- Federal Aid To Dependent Corporations From the Cato Institute,a nonpartisan public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, D.C. January 28, 1997
- Opening Remarks to National Press Club
Brenda Platt - 1999 - Zero Cut Meets Zero Waste by
Bill Sheehan
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