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0 V E R V I E <br /> <br />W <br /> <br />DRAFr SOIJi WASTE MANAGEMENT <br />DEVELOPMENT GUIDEfPOIJCY PLAN <br /> <br />SUMMARY: <br /> <br />People and local governments in the seven-county Metropolitan Area have made <br />substantial progress toward reducing the amount of waste that goes to landfills, but more <br />needs to be done to manage the region's growing waste stream. The draft policy plan <br />proposes a solid waste management system coordinated jointly by the counties that employ <br />a variety of technologies to manage the various components of the waste stream in the <br />most environmentally safe and economic manner. Economic incentives support the solid <br />waste management hierarchy by encouraging waste reduction, recycling, processing and the <br />most appropriate management of rejects and residuals at every stage, while making <br />landfilling the most expensive and least preferred alternative. <br /> <br />The proposed plan is quite different from the current solid waste plan, in the following <br />respects: <br /> <br />It places greater responsibility on waste generators to reduce and recycle their <br />waste by calling for mandatory weight- or volume-based trash collection fees and <br />mandatory recycling. <br /> <br />It calls for tougher recycling goals (35 percent by 1993, 40 percent by 1995 and 50 <br />percent by 2000) and subsequently more balance between processing and recycling. <br /> <br />It calls for more waste processing capacity during the next decade to reduce <br />landfilling, but limits waste combustion capacity to currently planned levels. <br /> <br />It requires the counties to plan for management of the entire waste stream, not <br />just municipal solid waste, and to concentrate on the removal of toxics during all <br />phases' of waste management <br /> <br />It proposes changing the economics of the system to promote the waste hierarchy <br />through increased fees on landfilled waste to reflect all related costs including site <br />preparation, closure and post closure, thus encouraging more waste reduction, <br />recycling and processing. <br /> <br />The draft plan documents the Metropolitan Area's dwindling supply of landfill space and <br />sets incremental landfill volume limits through 2010. It calls for completion of the landfill <br />siting process by January I993 to assure that the region will have the capability to dispose <br />of wastes that must be landfitled. The proposed plan will enable metropolitan counties to <br />contract for waste disposal space outside the region in lieu of opening up these new <br />metropolitan landfill sites. <br /> <br />(over) <br /> <br />METROPOLITAN COUNCIL, M~arx Park Centre, 230 F. Fifth .gt. SL Pau~ MN 55101 612 291-6359 <br /> <br /> <br />