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The Catalonia waste Agency held an information day in Tarragona
25/01/2010
January 25, 2010
The Catalonia waste agency, the Department of environment and housing, organized on 19 January an information day on the management of municipal waste in the province of Tarragona. The Agency organized this meeting in order to give support to local entities in their competence in the field of municipal waste, providing information and tools for the exercise of their functions.
One of the topics covered in the day was inform the criteria for the return of the canon on the deposition of municipal waste for the year 2010. This fee is a tax that burn waste that are deposit or incinerator, and which aims to promote the selective collection of waste, especially the organic fraction in the Catalan municipalities. He also explained the current situation of the territorial extension of separate collection of organic matter and the follow-up which will make the waste Agency to ensure the implementation of the planning that has made each municipality, given that the rules provided for the payment of an additional fee of 10 euros per tonne for those municipalities that do not meet the approved planning.
