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Recommendation IND10: Explore ways to implement Beyond Waste incentives

Work with affected parties to recommend ways to implement financial and regulatory incentives and approaches to encourage hazardous waste generators to adopt Beyond Waste behaviors. Some possible incentives and approaches are as follows:

• Performance results: Reduce “regulatory burdens” for businesses that adopt environmentally beneficial results that are above and beyond current requirements.
• Green technology: Accelerating adoption of environmentally beneficial technology primarily in the public sector.
• Product stewardship: Collaborating with producers/manufacturers to take responsibility for minimizing their product’s environmental effects.
• Product certification/labeling: Certifying the environmental performance of products by an independent third party.
• Recognition programs: Recognizing businesses that volunteer and meet certain waste-reduction criteria (and the recognition is used as a marketing incentive).
• Tax or fee incentives including rebates and advance fees: Using state/local tax code to indirectly encourage a desired behavior.
• Eliminate subsidies: Removing current payments that directly or indirectly encourage use of toxic substances and virgin materials.
• Fees: Charging fees on a relative scale to pay for government oversight – polluters pay on a sliding scale, based on type or amount of pollutant/waste.
• Phase out highly toxic substances using memorandums of agreement: Developing a memorandum of agreement between Ecology and affected parties to phase out certain highly toxic substances.
• Assistance in redesigning an organization’s product or process: Providing assistance to companies in redesign efforts, to the benefit of the company and the environment.

Related Milestone

With the support of stakeholders, additional incentives have been identified to implement Beyond Waste which may include changes to hazardous waste fees and taxes.

Related Milestone

Most pollution prevention plans comprehensively address hazardous substance use.

Related Milestone

Most of the major new businesses locating in Washington State have been designed to minimize wastes and toxics.

Related Milestone

Most hazardous waste handlers in Washington have taken noticeable steps toward becoming brokers of materials to encourage more reuse and recycling by those who generate hazardous waste.

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