General Council Findings and Declarations. The economic and population growth of the Campo Band and the State of California and the improvements in the standard of living have required increased industrial production and have made necessary the demolition of old buildings, the construction of new buildings, and the provision of highways and other avenues of transportation, which, together with related industrial, commercial, and agricultural operations, have resulted in a rising tide of scrap, discarded, and waste material. Inadequate and environmentally unsound practices for the disposal or use of solid waste and hazardous material have created greater amounts of soil, air, and water pollution and other problems for public health and the environment. The traditional methods of solid waste and hazardous material management may not meet future requirements for eliminating environmental pollution and conserving natural resources. Millions of tons of recoverable material that could be used are needlessly buried each year.
Methods are available to separate recoverable material from solid waste.
The recovery and conservation of such material can produce numerous benefits to the Campo Band, the State of California, and the United States. Expansion of existing sanitary landfills and the establishment of new ones close to solid waste generation sources is becoming increasingly difficult due to local citizen opposition. Solid waste contains valuable energy and material resources that can be recovered and used, thereby conserving increasingly scarce and expensive fossil fuels and virgin materials. The recovery of energy and material from solid waste and the conservation of energy and materials contributing to municipal solid waste streams can have the effect of reducing the volume. The technology to conserve resources and to recover energy and materials from solid waste exists and is commercially feasible to apply.