Administrative Cost

-One of the joining of municipalities objectives through the Consortia is to reduce investment and costs, and cooperate with physical and technical resources. For example, it is expected that with a shared landfill, represents a reduction in operating costs for the municipalities.

-Consortia need an initial planning to ensure necessary financing resources. Also, it is necessary to prove from where the resources to cover the MSWM costs services will come from-by collection of taxes, directly from municipal budgets or subsidies.

-Prioritize access to resources can help the initial funding, but will it sustain the activities in the long term?

-There is lack of planning the true costs of the whole process of landfill structure maintenance.

The absence of specific municipal budget for the SWM sector and the difficulty of creation, implementation, and charging for SWM services are a common problem and fall on Consortia.

Not charging for SWM services does not incentive the population to reduce waste generation, which leads to higher SWM services demand and new infrastructure.

-The responsibilities of municipalities and the Consortia should be well defined, and the form of services execution-by the Consortia itself, Concession or Public Private Partnership (PPP).

-Communication and education programs costs should be included to involve stakeholders and the public, so they can understand the importance of services and the need to pay taxes.

-SWM needs continuous and uninterrupted maintenance and the resources and revenue for its self-sufficiency should be proved.

-Municipality’s budget is the largest source of funds for cleaning, regular and recycling collection, and transport. Consortia contracts appear as the greatest source of funds for the construction, operation and maintenance of landfills. However, it drew attention that only one Consortia pointed out charging for service delivery.

-Despite guarantee by law charging for SWM services is insufficient. Even though the Funds tends to request self-sufficiency for maintenance of activities, only half of the 29 Consortia marked the collection of taxes as a challenge to cover the costs of SWM services. Integrated Plans and Protocol of Intentions should provide economical instruments.

-Lack of technical capacity was evident throughout the Funds and Consortia surveys that will represent additional costs.

-Without Integrated Plans it will require more efforts and resources on the first phase of Consortia creation.

-There were no direct questions concerning the construction or landfill operation; however, as the major goal of the Consortia was the final disposal, it may conclude that landfill location is critical for its impact on costs.