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IND3 — Put several Beyond Waste incentives in place
Recommendation IND 3 — Put in place several Beyond Waste
incentives.
Work with affected parties to recommend financial and regulatory
incentives and approaches to encourage hazardous waste generators
to adopt Beyond Waste behaviors. Some possible incentives and approaches
include:
- Performance results: Reduce “regulatory burdens”
for businesses that adopt environmentally beneficial results
that are beyond current requirements.
- Green technology: Accelerate adoption of environmentally
beneficial technology, primarily in the public sector.
- Product stewardship: Work with producers and manufacturers
to take responsibility for minimizing their product’s environmental
effects.
- Product certification/labeling: Certify the environmental
performance of products by an independent third party.
- Recognition programs: Recognize businesses that volunteer
and meet certain waste-reduction criteria (and use the recognition
as a marketing incentive).
- Low-interest loans or other financing: Help fund
technology for pollution prevention or other environmental improvement
at businesses, such as redesigning products to minimize the
use of hazardous substances.
- Eliminate subsidies: Remove current payments that
directly or indirectly encourage use of toxic substances and
virgin materials.
- Changes to hazardous waste fees: Restructure the
planning fee and the hazardous substances fee to provide incentives
for reducing hazardous wastes and substances. This may include
higher charges for more toxic chemicals.
- Phase out highly toxic substances using memoranda of
agreement: Develop a memorandum of agreement (MOA) between
Ecology and affected parties to phase out certain highly toxic
substances.
- Assistance in redesigning an organization’s product or
process: Help companies in redesign efforts that benefit
the company and the environment.
We studied many incentives over the last five years, especially
recognition programs and financial incentives. However, we implemented
only a few incentives for select products, such as product stewardship
for electronics, and an MOA with the state dentists association
on properly disposing of fillings containing mercury. Ecology would
like to provide more incentives to businesses and others. We will
work with the Legislature and others to create more incentives.
Milestone IND C: Several incentives are in place to help
implement Beyond Waste, including a possible low-interest loan program
or possible changes to hazardous waste fees.
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