01-03-1985 Council Packet Special Meeting

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to assist with the publicity of services of other providers. Municipalities can also help greatly by identifying important community organizations that may wish to assist with the publicity of specific projects. Also, municipal utility bills (e.g., water, sewer) should be considered as appropriate vehicles for literature about solid waste programs and/or problems. The individual companies that provide solid waste and recyclables collection services are in the best position to know the needs of their specific program. Therefore, it should be the providers primary responsibility to publicize the specifics about their project especially as it aimed at encouraging resident participation in a specific manner. Governmental units and agencies that are not directly providing the service can assist with these efforts but should assume secondary responsibility. LAND DISPOSAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INTRODUCTION The land disposal development program allocates the needed land disposal capa- city in the region between 1985 through the year 2000. The development program will be used to make decisions, through permits and certificates of need, where and when new land disposal capacity will developed. The program applies to both the final siting of new facilities and the expansion of existing land dis- posal facilities. The program contains a land disposal development schedule that allocates capacity on a county basis. The Council will review the land- fill development schedule every year and will revise the schedule based on the progress made towards attainment of the waste reduction/recovery objectives. Land disposal facilities will continue to play a significant albeit diminished role in the region as an operating component of the future solid waste manage- ment system. Residues such as ash from incineration facilities and nonbio- degradeable substances screened out of co -compost will probably be handled by land disposal facilities. Future abatement efforts may show the potential to recycle the residuals for productive purposes; however, additional research is needed. There is significant capacity remaining in the existing landfill system. This capacity needs to be carefully managed to prevent the premature development of new land disposal facilities. Implementation of the waste reduction and resource recovery development program will significantly reduce the amount of waste requiring land disposal, by about 50 percent. This reduction in volume increases the operating period of the existing land disposal system and delays the point in time at which new facilities are developed. Land disposal capacity will be needed to handle special wastes, such as demoli- tion debris. Some of these wastes are unique to certain industrial generators and may require special handling procedures or landfill design requirements. Oftentimes these wastes are not easily separated or must be kept separate from ash or mixed municipal solid wastes. Therefore, industrial generators often have their own landfill for their special wastes. In other circumstances special wastes can be saf- fisposed at a mixed waste landfill with the other wastes or in a separate a cot -ties will determine the quantities of special wastes that must L_ :heir study of commercial and industrial waste generation that will L in 1985. 62