The WGF covers a significant portion of the cost of processing municipal solid waste at the Resource Recovery Facility (RRF). More specifically, the fee covers RRF operation and maintenance, plant construction financing charges, ash disposal costs, and expenses related to the transportation of waste from the Authority's two transfer stations.
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The WGF is a fee the Authority charges to non-residential (commercial) property owners and residential property owners in communities that do not offer municipal waste collection (East Norriton, Horsham, Upper Merion and Whitpain Townships). The WGF is supplemented by an adjustable market-based tipping fee (MBTF) charged directly to commercial haulers. Together, the WGF and the MBTF revenues cover the Authority's full cost of processing commercial waste.
Non-residential property owners in the following municipalities also will pay the WGF to dispose of waste at the RRF: Abington, Ambler, Bryn Athyn, Cheltenham, Conshohocken, East Norriton, Hatboro, Horsham, Jenkintown, Lower Merion, Lower Moreland, Narberth, Norristown, Plymouth, Rockledge, Springfield, Upper Dublin, Upper Merion, Upper Moreland, West Conshohocken, Whitemarsh and Whitpain.
If your community has a single hauler collect trash or has its own municipal collection, you should see little, if any, change under the WGF System.
For more information download the 2008 Waste Generation Study.