Solid waste is a health and safety issue,
according to Georgia law.
According to the
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
copy of the
GEORGIA COMPREHENSIVE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT OF 1990
AS AMENDED THROUGH 2004,
O.C.G.A. § 12-8-21. Declaration of policy; legislative intent
a) It is declared to be the policy of the State of Georgia, in
furtherance of
its responsibility to protect the
public health, safety, and well-being
of its citizens and to protect and enhance
the
quality of its environment, to institute and maintain a
comprehensive state-wide program for solid waste management and
to prevent and abate litter,
so as to assure that solid waste does not
adversely affect the
health, safety, and well-being of the public
and that solid waste facilities, whether publicly or privately
owned, do not degrade the quality of the environment
by reason of
their location, design, method of operation, or other means and
which, to the extent feasible and practical, makes maximum utilization
of the resources contained in solid waste.
Emphasis added on the parts about
health, safety, well-being, and the environment.
Those are the goals of this legislation, stated twice in the first paragraph.
Georgia being a home rule state, the implementation of these goals
is now left to the local governing bodies.
More on that next.
-gretchen
the blog of LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange
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