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3.6 Costs and Funding of the BPEO for MSW
Implementation of the BPEO may result in the cost of MSW
management increasing. New waste management facilities (e.g. bring sites,
composting equipment) will require capital investment, and the introduction
of more complex collection systems will incur additional revenue costs.
Extra finance is required to assist local authorities in delivering
new infrastructure, and fund the promotional campaigns required to change
behaviour patterns in support of new schemes.
There is a range of potential funding sources, and a number
of different ways in which the new infrastructure and services could
operate. The onus will however inevitably fall on the local authorities
to take forward the required developments in the long term.
The Scottish Executive has allocated £230 million
for the financial years 2003/04, 2004/05, 2005/06 through the Strategic
Waste Fund that Local Authorities have been invited to bid into in order
to fund implementation of their part of the AWPs. Partnership working
with non-profit making organisations may to some extent compliment this,
but any major outstanding balance will need to come largely from other
public sources. Aside from the Scottish Executive an increasing number
of such sources exist including:
- Highlands & Islands Partnership Programme
(HIPP)
- Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
The successful implementation of the BPEO is wholly reliant
on sufficient additional levels of funding being secured.
In light the results from integrating the eleven draft
AWPs published in spring 2002, the Executive has calculated that an
interim overall national target of recycling and composting of 25% of
waste collected by local authorities is achievable by 2006 by implementation
of AWPs, and has allocated funding adequate to achieve that target.
Detailed costs for each of the two local authorities will be set out
in their Implementation Plans for the Strategic Waste Fund bid. Further
information on national costings is provided in the NWP (2003). Authorities
will be expected to seek grant support from the Strategic Waste Fund
to assist with the additional costs of implementing the AWPs and will
be expected to ensure that delivery of the plans will contribute to
the 2006 targets by early implementation of recycling and composting
systems.
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