Charging the collection of household waste according to the volume of your waste: Toulouse study
Through David Saint Sernin
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Invoicing the collection according to the weight of the waste produced or according to the lifting of the garbage bins, this is the principle of household refuse collection tax (TEOM) incentive. Simply put, the more waste you generate, the more you pay.
This billing by weight, or by the number of bin lifting, has already been practiced in the south-east of the Toulouse metropolitan area, in the Sicoval agglomeration community, since 2016.
Under study since June 2021
After the Sicoval, it is around Toulouse Métropole to reflect on this possibility. A study was launched in June 2021. Conducted by an independent firm, this study will make it possible to see more clearly in ten months, in the course of the year 2022.
Vincent Terrail-Novès, 3rd Vice-president of Toulouse Métropole, responsible for the circular economy, waste and cleanliness, but also president of the mixed union Decoset, collection service provider, requested that such a study be launched “to throw out tangible elements” as to the feasibility of the device on the scale of Toulouse Métropole.
A financial bonus
“We are looking to see if this can be applied at the metropolitan level. The principle would be simple, explains the elected official. The user who will benefit from a virtuous gesture by reducing the level of his waste would benefit from a financial bonus. Specifically, the user whose bin is raised less often than it is currently would pay less for the service. Everything is looked at within the framework of this study ”.
Scenarios at the end of 2022
The current study will address all the difficulties that the establishment of the incentive TEOM on the territory of Toulouse Métropole could envisage. She will take stock of the current situation within weeks. The report of the study, costing 178,814 euros for the community, will be published in one year, at the end of 2022.
“In this report will appear proposals, scenarios that we can then put into practice as part of an experiment that allows us the law”, indicates the elected.
The difficulty of collective housing
While waiting for the more precise elements of the study, Toulouse Métropole is aware of the difficulties presented by the introduction of the household waste collection tax (TEOM) as an incentive on certain sectors of the agglomeration, in particular in collective housing:
“On the territory of Toulouse Métropole, 75% of the population lives in collective housing. Many of these residents are tenants who often change homes. This raises the question of the application of the measure in the collective because of the turnover recorded, but also the difficulty that we could recover the sums due given this turnover. If Sicoval was able to apply such a device, it is because apart from Ramonville and Castanet, most of the housing there is suburban ”.
On the territory of Sicoval, the result interesting for the citizens. According to the agglomeration community, the incentive TEOM has, in fact, made it possible to reduce the volume of waste produced by its inhabitants and therefore reduce the bill.
Lower bill at Sicoval
According to the figures provided by this community in March 2021, the price paid by its citizens would have fallen by 15% over the period from 2015 to 2020 when, at the same time, it increased by 6% for the inhabitants of the Toulouse metropolitan area. (Toulouse Métropole’s TEOM is based on the rental value of housing multiplied by the rate set by the community, editor’s note).
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