Regional solid waste management policy

✍ Scribed by Wallace Allen

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 478 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0049-6979
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00160451

✦ Synopsis

A Bay Area Council study of solid waste management in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area has concluded that there exists an appropriate role for region-wide planning of resource recovery and multi-county solid waste management systems. The Council recommendations divide regional solid waste management responsibilities between the private and public sector, and among different levels of government, from cities and counties to the federal level.

The Bay Area and other of the nation's metropolitan areas are facing major decisions relative to solid waste management. Such decisions will require greatest consideration of the entire region's needs and resources which transcend local government boundaries. The Council Report offers for evaluating regional solid waste management project proposals forty technical criteria and forty financial criteria considerations. The report recommends a flexible solid waste management system with the advantage of allowing different technologies to exist within the total regional system. This is important because of both advancing technology and possible changes in packaging and manufacturing processes which could alter the composition and volume of solid waste.