42 U.S.C. § 6941a : US Code - Section 6941A: Energy and materials conservation and recovery; Congressional findings

Search 42 U.S.C. § 6941a : US Code - Section 6941A: Energy and materials conservation and recovery; Congressional findings

The Congress finds that -
(1) significant savings could be realized by conserving
materials in order to reduce the volume or quantity of material
which ultimately becomes waste;
(2) solid waste contains valuable energy and material resources
which can be recovered and used thereby conserving increasingly
scarce and expensive fossil fuels and virgin materials;
(3) the recovery of energy and materials from municipal waste,
and the conservation of energy and materials contributing to such
waste streams, can have the effect of reducing the volume of the
municipal waste stream and the burden of disposing of increasing
volumes of solid waste;
(4) the technology to conserve resources exists and is
commercially feasible to apply;
(5) the technology to recover energy and materials from solid
waste is of demonstrated commercial feasibility; and
(6) various communities throughout the nation have different
needs and different potentials for conserving resources and for
utilizing techniques for the recovery of energy and materials
from waste, and Federal assistance in planning and implementing
such energy and materials conservation and recovery programs
should be available to all such communities on an equitable basis
in relation to their needs and potential.