CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS TAXES SHOULD COVER EUROPE SAYS EEA
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONSTRUCTION materials taxes, such as Britain's aggregates tax, should be used widely to encourage the building sector to waste fewer materials, the European Environment Agency has said. In a new report, it claimed the British tax gave the construction sector confidence when purchasing materials, "since part of the levy revenues have been used to support the development of quality standards for recycled aggregates". It added that such environmental taxation schemes can help improve the quality and reliability of extraction data, used ...
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