Solutions to solid waste

One of the last initiatives lawmakers took up at the close of the 2007 legislative session was a comprehensive solid waste reform bill. The most important overhaul of the state’s solid waste laws in two decades, the bill grew out of a year-long moratorium on new landfills enacted by the legislature in 2006 in response to proposed mega-landfills in the eastern part of the state and the Piedmont. As an added bonus, the bill establishes the computer recycling program Sierra Club has championed for the past two years.

SB1492 Suggests End for Mega-Dump Proposals
Five proposed coastal landfills in North Carolina’s eastern and Piedmont counties would bring about 4 million tons of waste into the state, mostly from out of state. Find out what happened in the legislature this year to reverse the dump on NC dynamic…

Electronics Recycling Enacted!
Discarded electronics are one of the fastest growing waste streams in the U.S., but recycling rates are low. North Carolina took an important step forward in the 2007 legislative session by enacting the first comprehensive computer recycling program in the Southeast!