[greenyes] 14 years later...

["Eric Lombardi" <eric@no.address>]

(from Waste News)

 

By Pete Fehrenbach

 

The Des Moines Register reported yesterday that starting in January, Iowa
landfills will have to comply with a federal law requiring that disposal
sites 

be lined with clay or plastic to keep leachate from leaking 

-- or should that be leakage from leaching? -- into local 

waterways. 

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051017/NEWS05/5101
70338/1001/NEWS

 

 

The law referred to but not identified in the story is 

Subtitle D of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

 

According to the article, Iowa is the last state in the 

Midwest to enforce the rule. Which makes me wonder: Am I the 

only one who's surprised that Subtitle D -- enacted all the 

way back during the reign of George Bush I -- isn't the law 

of the land everywhere?

 

 

 

Eric Lombardi

Executive Director

Eco-Cycle Inc

303-444-6634

www.ecocycle.org

 

 "Anything that changes your values, changes your behavior"
George Sheehan.