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V. PRELIMINARY RECOMMENDATIONS The 1980 Waste Management Act states that the Council's land disposal abatement report shall recommend priorities and objectives for abating, immediately and over specified time periods, the disposal of mixed municipal solid waste in the Metropolitan Area. This preliminary report does not contain specific recommendations for the content of proposals to be developed by the metropolitan counties. However, the final abatement report will include guidelines for the structure and content of 1982 county proposals in order to ensure a certain amount of format consistency. In order to achieve the regional goals proposed in the previous section, this section of the preliminary report outlines specific recommendations for action for state, regional and local units of government. These recommendations are offered here for discussion purposes and are not to be considered final. Comments at the county public meetings will be used by the Council's Land Disposal Abatement Advisory Subcommittee to develop final recommendations to be presented to the Metropolitan Council on November 20, 1980. A. WASTE REDUCTION 1. CONTAINER DEPOSITS The Minnesota Legislature should reconsider the container deposit issue. This preliminary report indicates that a maximum of six percent of the solid waste stream could be diverted from the Region's landfills with beverage container deposits. The metropolitan counties should support a state deposit law through resolution. The metropolitan counties and the Minnesota Legislature should support through resolution a national deposit law to ensure uniform implementation throughout the country. 2. PACKAGING REDUCTION The Metropolitan Council and the metropolitan counties'should assist the MPCA in its continuing evaluation of the current packaging rules. The Metropolitan Council, through its advisory committee, and the metropolitan counties should help develop any recommendations to the State Legislature to ensure adequate representation by citizens, industry and government officials. 3. OFFICE PAPER REDUCTION Ail units of government should support office paper reduction policies through adoption of specific administrative policies for procurement, paper use and in-office recycling. (See also recommendations under "Source Separation".)