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PAYT programs

Instead of paying a flat rate for solid waste collection, residents in PAYT programs are charged by how much they throw away. Generally, participants in PAYT programs are charged for each bag or can of trash they dispose of. Less commonly,...

Solid Waste Disposal and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

In 1976, Congress determined that population growth in the United States along with advances in technology, industry, and agriculture were resulting in a "rising tide of scrap, discarded, and waste materials." Congress further determined that the...

The Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988

In the summers of 1987 and 1988, a substantial amount of trash, which had presumably dumped offshore, floated up onto eastern beaches, much of which was infectious medical waste such as used hypodermic syringes. This created grave concerns about...

The Air Quality Index

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is charged with setting acceptable safe levels of several different common air pollutants. Moreover, for each common air pollutant, there are two standards: one for human health and the other for the...

The Coastal Zone Management Act

Recognizing that the coastal zones of the United States represent diverse and abundant natural resources useful for many purposes and that the exploitation of those resources was having an increasingly adverse effect on both those resources...