This promotes the most unsustainable form of transportation. The Greens propose that air travel should be subject to VAT and the same minimum excise duty as petrol should apply to jet fuel. There are other elements of a Green tax reform where the environmental effects are high, but the revenues of these charges are too low or too unstable to generate revenues for reducing taxes on labour. The main aim is ecological conversion. Landfill and incineration are ecological sins because they squander resources and create more dangerous waste.
Incineration of waste is normally much more expensive.
The revenues of these Green charges on final disposal have to be used to encourage and support reuse, recycling and composting systems. Denmark, the Netherlands and Finland have landfill taxes already, and France has a small landfill tax. A Green Earmarked Charge on 'Industrial' Agriculture Taxes on pesticides already exist in Sweden and Denmark. They should be extended to the whole European Union. The revenues of these taxes should be used to stimulate organic farming.