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The incineration is the most expensive system for waste disposal and all the Italians, unknown to them, pay generous incentives to support it The campaign in favor of energy plants, the largest managed by all means of mass communication, deliberately omits two essential information: "How it costs and who pay? ". According to EU documents, the answer to the first question is that incineration is the most expensive method to dispose of waste.
In Austria, the incineration of one ton of waste by the waste incineration plant in Vienna, what is said to be in the city center and has been in the care of an imaginative aesthetic architect, well costs 148 Euro. In Denmark, the waste incinerator plant in Copenhagen would have us believe that we are close to the "Little Mermaid", costs € 97 per tonne. Burning waste in Germany costs a little 'less: € 88 per tonne. [...]
The lower costs of incinerators in Germany, than the Danes and Austrians have an explanation. Germany is rich in old salt mines, where safety can be stored in the so-called fly ash, which is all that remains in the filter after the purification of the flue gas of incinerators, real toxic waste because they contain such high concentrations, heavy metals, dioxins, furans, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
And these same salt mines run out of toxic waste incinerator in Vienna and the incinerator of Brescia, while the Danes, to save and export their fly ash in neighboring Sweden. This traffic of toxic waste costs a lot of money: for each ton of ash volanti gli austriaci pagano 363 euro e i tedeschi 255 euro. […] La beffa italiana degli incentivi all’incenerimento
Anche in Italia termovalorizzare rifiuti è una scelta che si paga a caro prezzo: mediamente, 90 euro a tonnellata. Eppure, nel nostro paese smaltire le ceneri volanti costa molto poco (129 euro a tonnellata). Sarebbe interessante capire in quale modo riusciamo ad avere prezzi così bassi anche perché, come sappiamo, l’Italia non ha miniere di salgemma disponibili per lo stoccaggio di rifiuti pericolosi.
Ma la via italiana alla termovalorizzazione dei rifiuti ha altre singolari particolarità.
While Austria, Denmark, Belgium tax the incineration of waste (from 4 to € 71 per tonne) in Italy, this technology has encouraged with generous donations in cash, paid to electricity produced by burning garbage.
Across Europe the sale of electricity produced by burning waste is made at prices very similar to that of electricity from conventional sources (oil, coal, natural gas), or approximately 4 cents per kilowatt hour.
In Italy, sales of electricity produced from fruit to the operator of an incinerator from 9 to 14 cents per kilowatt hour, depending on the economic incentive is drawing on the advantages provided by the "green certificates" or the so-called CIP6 .
In both cases, these incentives should go to renewable energy sources (solar, wind, biomass) and instead go to support the incineration of waste, declared by law, all Italian, renewable energy source.
This means that the operator, for every tonne of waste incinerators, thanks to electricity produced (0.5 chilowatore per kilogram of waste incinerators), receiving a bonus ranging from 25 to 50 €.
this money come from the portfolios of all Italian families and this (the Italian families) is the answer to the second question that we made at the beginning of this conversation: who pays?
In this case, the incentives for incineration are paid the electricity bill, a real hidden tax that is added to the waste tax which is already expensive, but that is likely to increase when, as expected all the district plans is termovalorizzerà 65% of the waste produced by the Italians.
Currently, approximately 60% of waste produced in Italy is sent to landfills and the average cost of landfill (64 € per ton) is much lower than incineration
With the current system of collection and disposal of waste and the 'Current Per capita production of waste (about 550 pounds per year), the cost borne by households for the disposal of a kilogram of waste is about 12 cents. When in Italy will be working every 140 incinerators planned, it is inevitable a generalized strong increase in the tax on waste, which is expected to be equal to 40% more than the actual rate. In this situation, the cost paid by households for the disposal of a kilogram of waste could rise to about 17 cents.
But if the choice of the energy plant will push forward the true cost of waste to energy, always under the Italian families, will be ancora maggiore.
Pochi sanno che ogni volta che compriamo qualche cosa, paghiamo 7 centesimi per ogni chilo di imballaggio con cui è confezionato il nostro acquisto: contenitore in vetro, plastica, metallo, scatola di cartone, involucro in plastica, sacchetto.
Questa tassa va al Consorzio Nazionale Imballaggi (CONAI) e dovrebbe servire a coprire i costi per la raccolta e il riciclaggio degli stessi imballaggi.
Ma l’Italia ha i più bassi tassi di riciclaggio in Europa (circa il 20%), destinati a rimanere bassi, grazie alla “furbata” tutta italiana di far diventare, per legge, la termovalorizzazione una forma di riciclo.
Pertanto, la tassa pagata per il riciclo degli imballaggi non is, and will not be used for their intended purpose if all the incinerators will be built that anyone would want (one for each province) and this could constitute a massive fraud to the detriment of all Italians.
In conclusion, a kilogram of packaging waste to energy plants, counting future tax waste (17 cents.) Packaging recycling tax (7 cents.) And the cost of green certificates (9 cents.) Italian families will cost about 33 cents (639 lire).
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The article is excerpted from the book by Federico Valerio incinerator? No! All I have not ever said about waste incinerators, and many of you begin to ask edited by Andromeda (Reprint series No. 21). You can buy the book online via the website www.macrolibrarsi.it . |
