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1.It is the policy of this state to encourage the development of waste volume reduction
programs and education at the local government level through incentives, technical
assistance, grants, and other practical measures.
2.It is the policy of this state to support and encourage the development of new uses and
markets for recycled goods, placing emphasis on the development, in Iowa, of businesses
relating to waste reduction and recycling.
3.The provision of education concerning waste volume reduction at the elementary
through high school levels and through community organizations will enhance the success
of local programs requiring public involvement.
4.Thisstatesupportsandencouragesmanufacturingmethodswhichareenvironmentally
sustainable, technologically safe, and ecologically sound. Th
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1. It is the policy of this state to encourage the development of waste volume reduction
programs and education at the local government level through incentives, technical
assistance, grants, and other practical measures.
2. It is the policy of this state to support and encourage the development of new uses and
markets for recycled goods, placing emphasis on the development, in Iowa, of businesses
relating to waste reduction and recycling.
3. The provision of education concerning waste volume reduction at the elementary
through high school levels and through community organizations will enhance the success
of local programs requiring public involvement.
4. Thisstatesupportsandencouragesmanufacturingmethodswhichareenvironmentally
sustainable, technologically safe, and ecologically sound. The state shall encourage
manufacturing methods which enhance waste reduction by creating products with longer
usage life, and by creating products which are adaptable to secondary uses, require less
input material, and decrease resource consumption.
5. The people of this state recognize that a variety of benefits result from a comprehensive
waste reduction policy including the following environmental, economic, governmental, and
public benefits:
a. Not producing waste in the first instance is the most certain means for avoiding the
widely recognized health and environmental damage associated with waste. Although waste
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reduction will never eliminate all wastes, to the extent that waste reduction is achieved it
results in the most certain form of direct risk reduction.
b. Waste reduction may result in reduced pollution control costs for industry by
stimulating and promoting beneficial technological and management reorganization within
industry in place of pollution control strategies which channel capital into nonproductive
pollution control expenditures.
c. The government is better able to administer programs which offer a variety of benefits
to industry and which reduce the overall cost of government involvement than it is to
administer programs which offer few benefits to industry and require increasingly extensive,
complex, and costly governmental actions.
d. Public confidence in environmental policies of the government is important for the
effectiveness of these policies. Waste reduction poses no adverse environmental and public
health effects and does not, therefore, lead to increased public concern. Waste reduction also
increasesthepublicconfidencethatthegovernmentandindustryaredoingallthatispossible
to protect human health and the environment.