§ 22-27-15 — Establishment and Review of Reduction Goals

(a) No later than October 15, 2009, the department shall establish, by rule, a goal for the percentage, on a statewide basis only, of the reduction in the amount of household and commercial solid waste and the time frames for that reduction. Reduction, by means including, but not limited to, recycling, source reduction, waste minimization, reuse, and composting shall be determined at public solid waste disposal or incineration facilities on a statewide, per capita basis. In order to evaluate the statewide efforts, the department shall adopt rules for the determination of the base year data, and reporting requirements by local governing bodies and public solid waste disposal or incineration facilities, to include both the quantity and origin of the solid waste disposed or incinerated at such facilities. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the reduction goals shall emphasize activities prior to the delivery of solid waste to public solid waste disposal or incineration facilities, unless reduction activities are provided on the site of the solid waste disposal or incineration facility under an agreement between the generator or collector of the solid waste and the solid waste disposal facility.
(b) Every three years after the implementation of subsection (a), the director shall review the solid waste reduction activities of the state and determine whether the reduction goal established pursuant to this section should be modified by future rulemaking.
(c) In determining the minimum solid waste reduction goals, the department may consider factors such as local collection and disposal costs, solid waste composition, the population density of counties or municipalities, and the distance to available markets for recovered materials.

Legislative History

(Act 2008-151, p. 244, §2.)