Solid Waste Management

LWVMD takes Action to promote informed decisions affecting solid waste management. (1995)

Support for:

• -ample opportunity and funding for active public participation including timely scheduling and notification of public meetings.
• -provisions by local, state, and federal governments of the following types of information on the impact of solid waste actions: environment, economics, public health, socio-economic, demographics.
• -technological information collected, shared, and provided by the state.
• -state regulations in place (1995) regarding control, funding and public health for the management of solid waste.
• -the following incentives that encourage the reduction, reuse, and recycling of materials and the opening of new markets and that discourage the use of some materials: legislative mandates, tax incentives, voluntary guidelines, pricing support, variable rates for waste pick up, procurement regulations.
• -inter and intra-state solutions to solid waste management.