This recommendation was not adopted in 2010 Finance Act

Despite the Grenelle of the environment, which sought to revive the, the formula of the charge (Reom) of payment collection and treatment of household waste by the user and not by the local taxpayer is not much more recipe. To date, only about 30 groups apply "incentive pricing", a Reom reviewed and corrected to push more homes to sort and limit their waste. In certain intercommunalités, it is the weight of garbage which is precisely measured, while others take into account their volume or the number of bins fundraising carried out before each level. At Besançon, the price depends on the size of the used bin.

The franc-comtoise capital is the only large agglomeration, to date, to go so far (see below) in the implementation of an incentive system. All other similar initiatives have been developed in rural areas and are still relatively few communes. In the overwhelming majority of cases (67 of Commons) and 85 of the population, in fact, the service is fully taxable. It is indeed tax removal of waste disposal (Teom), sitting on the leasehold bases of property tax paid by the owners, which funds.

An unjust system, because it does not take into account the production individual waste, which is not the lack of incentive pricing, to be "complicated to plac e and costly," notes Claire Delpech, fiscal matters to the communities of France (ADCF) Association. This organization has just published a guide which is the balance of the experiments carried out by some communities and their difficulties. Collective Habitat, individualize waste remains a much less easy in cottage area. But technical solutions exist, if price.

Another major difficulty, the intercommunalités who want to start must create or to use treatment services of "customer", including for the issuing of invoices and their recovery. The Teom does not impose this type of gourmet contingency in human resources, since it is the tax administration that sees. The financial challenge to establish an incentive fee is high. "The first year, this amounts to 30 Euro per capita, and then between 5 and 10 euros following years", said Nicolas Garnier, Association primer.

Perverse effects

To break the truth of costs may also be counterproductive and dangerous for local budgets. A few years because of a too high tariff grid, the garbage of the community of communes of Porte d'Alsace, began to empty and wild landfills to multiply! Suddenly, the intermunicipal began to lose revenue and could no longer cope with its new service loads. To avoid such adverse effects, the associations of elected representatives, at the top of which the ADCF and primer, defend a legislative amendment allowing the cumulation of the Teom - who would play the role of fixed part - and an incentive fee, which the community would vary the amount. This recommendation was not adopted in 2010 Finance Act.

In the end, the balance of all these experiences of incentive pricing, including Grenelle Act provided the generalization in five years, is mixed. "This has allowed a net improvement of selective collection, the tariff applied to the non-recyclable waste bins higher." "But we are still unable to show that this resulted in a change of behaviour on the consumption and waste production," explains Nicolas Garnier. For him, the solution of the problem is further upstream at the level of waste producers and, in particular large distribution.