# Gate fee

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A '''gate fee''' (or '''tipping fee''') is the charge levied upon a given quantity of [waste](/source/waste) received at a waste processing facility.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2016/10/18/putting-garbage-to-good-use-with-waste-to-energy/|title=Putting Garbage to Good Use with Waste-to-Energy|last=Cho|first=Renee|date=2016-10-18|website=State of the Planet - Earth Institute, Columbia University|language=en|access-date=2019-07-17}}</ref>

In the case of a [landfill](/source/landfill) it is generally levied to offset the cost of opening, maintaining and eventually closing the site. It may also include any [landfill tax](/source/landfill_tax) which is applicable in the region. The gate fee differs from the '''waste removal fee''' which is the charge levied on people in areas, such as [Ireland](/source/Ireland), where waste collection is not covered as part of local taxes.

With waste treatment facilities such as incinerators, mechanical biological treatment facilities or composting plants the fee offsets the operation, [maintenance](/source/Maintenance%2C_repair_and_operations), [labour](/source/Manual_labour) costs, [capital](/source/Capital_(economics)) costs of the facility along with any [profit](/source/Profit_(accounting))s and final disposal costs of any unusable residues.

The fee can be charged per load, per tonne, or per item depending on the source and type of the waste.

==See also==
*[Waste legislation](/source/Waste_legislation)
*[Waste management](/source/Waste_management)

==References==
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Category:Landfill
Category:Waste collection
Category:Waste treatment technology

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