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8/6/2019 ALEC Resolution on Packaging and the Municipal Solid Waste Stream

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Part VII: Environment, Energy and Natural Resources W

RESOLUTION ON PACKAGING AND THE MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE STREAM

ALEC’s model Resolution on Packaging and the Municipal Solid Waste Stream calls for free-market

incentives and solutions to be integrated in solid waste policies. Key components to the Resolution include:

recycling and source reduction.

Model Resolution

WHEREAS members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) recognize the importance of

effective and integrated solid waste management policies and programs; and

WHEREAS, all benefits of a package, including energy conservation, safety, nutrition and composition are

important, a recognized key step in achieving effective integrated solid waste management policies and

programs is reducing the amount of material at its source to ensure less waste is going into the municipal

solid waste stream; and

WHEREAS, there is increasing evidence that packaging manufacturers, as exemplified by those whomanufacture ultra-light aseptic packaging, have demonstrated that market-driven economic and technological

incentives will create efficient packaging, as well as packaging disposal capabilities; and

WHEREAS, these steps are being taken without diminishment of the safety, quality, value and efficient

distribution of food in the United States ; and

WHEREAS, these steps in the reduction of packaging waste and the development of recycling and disposal

technologies have come about because of the demands of the market place rather than by inefficient and

interfering government mandates or restrictions; and

WHEREAS, ALEC strongly believes that government restrictions, prohibitions or taxes on consumer

packaging and solid waste will create barriers rather incentives to reducing the solid waste stream and will

inhibit the very technological advances which manufactures seek to enable them to create source reduced and

recycled packaging and remain competitive in the market place;

NOW , THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that ALEC officially expresses its support for local, state and

federal policies including recognition of the effective use of minimal packaging materials, public/private

partnerships for recycling, and the evolving market-driven technologies which can make substantial

contributions to meeting our solid waste disposal needs; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that ALEC discourages any legislation regarding solid waste and packaging

policies which would create government barriers to, and interference with free-market incentives and

solutions, and which create special requirements for recycling, recycled content and related solid waste

disposal techniques, to the detriment of source reduction, advanced technology and market-driven solutions;

and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be transmitted to all ALEC members and

other interested persons.

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