Options range from charging £2.50 per bag of rubbish plus an annual States fixed charge of £85 per household, to a purely ‘polluter pays approach’ that could initially cost between £3.90 and £4.80 per bag.
Whatever approach is agreed, the average cost per household is expected to be within the £7 a week estimate previously identified. That covers all waste and recycling collections, and the subsequent processing and export of materials for recycling, recovery or disposal.
The estimated cost includes £32m. that is currently being invested in new services and facilities to collect, process, and sort waste and recycling before the materials are exported for recycling, energy recovery or disposal.
The States may decide to fund this from the capital reserve. That would reduce future waste bills by around £60 per household per year – which would bring down the estimated costs from an average of £7.00 a week to £5.90.
The alternative is a loan from the States of Guernsey bond, which will then be repaid from household and commercial waste charges over the next 20 years.
New fees are expected to be introduced in January or February.
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