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- Strong emphasis on market development for recyclable commodities.
- High priority on the immediate development of national guidelines and standards for recycled content, refill/reuse rates and source reduction standards.
- Establish a national ban on yard waste being disposed of in landfills by the year 2000.
- Recognizing that recycling rates do not address waste production, establish a national goal of reducing waste production by 20% by the year 2000, with industrial materials reduced by at least 10% by the year 2000.Cross-reference: waste reduction standards; market development; procurement; design for recycling; product
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- Steps should be taken to ensure cost-effective design of systems, and for collection, processing and end-uses to grow in size together.
- Incentives to increase the recycling rates should be structured to provide maximum benefit to those who increase the amount of recycling in an area, rather than support existing activities.
- Community-based recyclers and non-profit recyclers should be funded. -
- The National Recycling Coalition opposes the proliferation of degradable plastics.
- Calls for an immediate moratorium on the introduction and passage of legislation that would require or support the use of degradable plastics until issues of controversy have been resolved.
- More research into the viability of degradable plastics.
- Urges the federal government to establish testing standards to verify the safety and performance of these products. -
- Local prices at landfills should be set at replacement costs or higher to encourage source reduction, recycling and composting.
- Expenses for public education, research and development, and regulatory costs should be factored into the basic rates of disposal. -
- Setting goals at the state level for landfill diversion rates ensures that materials are collected and recovered for recycling.
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- Standards should be revised to allow greater use of recycled and recyclable materials.
- Carefully evaluate the hazardous waste regulation on recycling programs. -
- The National Recycling Coalition encourages the U.S. Senate to move quickly to ratify the Basel Convention.
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- Variable can rate structures should ideally rise steeply so that the rate for pickup of second and third cans is more that 2-3 times the rate for the first can.
