Legislation measures

Tax benefits for reusable systems would also support goals, such as waste prevention, resource conservation, reducing cleaning costs and avoiding the pollution of coasts and beaches regardless of the type of packaging and thus avoid potential conflicts of interest. This could be also achieved by a graded taxation of SUP items or the aquaculture sector although so far this approach is only applied for some kind of food packages.

Policy Policy

Photo: Olia Danilevich Photo: Olia Danilevich

Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

Baltic

Relevant stage:

Removal and recycling

Related Barriers:

  • There is a lack of waste management infrastructure with, e.g. insufficient opportunities to collect, sort and reuse waste in ports or other defined collection sites.

  • Provisions of the SUPD are yet not implemented on national level.

  • There is a lack of cooperation between different sectors like aquaculture, fisheries and agriculture to collect a needed amount of gear to assure recycling. Recycling will only be taken up on a larger scale if it is economically beneficial.

Related Good Practice:

R&R GP 8.3

Graded taxation

In Norway, all manufacturers of beverage bottles and cans have to pay taxes on the products. This taxation is graded according to the return rate of the products and does not apply to a return rate of 95% complete [Osterath 2018]. The approach could be applied to some passive fishing gear.