Public Policy Forum
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More than 2 million tons of materials are landfilled each year in Nebraska. This practice wastes valuable resources and threatens our air, groundwater and climate. Creating a resource recovery-based system will not only conserve resources and protect our environment but it will create and sustain more productive and meaningful jobs than a disposal-based system. Federal, state and local governments play a critical role in protecting our natural resources and creating the structures, regulations and incentives surrounding waste disposal and resource recovery. In 1992 Nebraska communities were required by state law to develop 20-year solid waste management plans. Few, if any, have come close to meeting their plan’s waste diversion goals. Why? What needs to change? What can governments do at each level to create incentives and frameworks through which Zero waste systems and infrastructure can develop?
For more information or to register visit: http://www.wastecapne.org/2014-sustainability-summit/.