{"id":18406,"date":"2017-03-08T11:29:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T16:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wasteadvantagemag.com\/?p=18406"},"modified":"2017-03-08T11:29:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T16:29:14","slug":"butting-into-louisville-landfill-business-a-waste-of-legislative-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wasteadvantagemag.com\/butting-into-louisville-landfill-business-a-waste-of-legislative-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Butting into Louisville Landfill Business a Waste of Legislative Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0passionate opposition\u00a0to a proposed landfill expansion in Scott County reminds us that reducing solid waste is key to protecting Kentucky land from being converted to landfill. But lawmakers are doing just the opposite. The House has approved a bill that would repeal Louisville Metro\u2019s ban on disposing of yard waste in plastic bags, a rule aimed at reducing landfill waste by making compost of lawn clippings and other plant material. Bits of plastic bag contaminate compost.<\/p>\n<p>In order to kill this common-sense rule,\u00a0House Bill 246\u00a0abolishes Louisville Metro\u2019s waste management district, its board and all its rules and regulations. This heavy-handed intrusion into local government is sponsored by four Republicans and one Democrat from Louisville and cleared the House 66-29 on Feb. 22.<\/p>\n<p>This session has generated several other attempts by state lawmakers from Louisville to impose on their hometown changes that they could not win locally \u2014 from obstructing school desegregation, with a bill that could also interfere in Lexington\u2019s school redistricting decisions, to controlling the balance of power in the metro government, an assault Mayor Greg Fischer has dubbed \u201cwar on Louisville.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The waste from Kentucky\u2019s largest city goes to a 782-acre facility owned by Waste Management on Louisville\u2019s Outer Loop. The landfill has a projected life of 48 more years. That may sound like a long time, but it\u2019s a good bet that as soon as that landfill is full, Louisville\u2019s garbage will be headed somewhere in rural Kentucky or rural Indiana. So, extending its capacity by reducing the waste stream is in everyone\u2019s best interest.<\/p>\n<p>Fischer\u2019s administration is smart to have set ambitious goals for waste reduction and recycling. Instead of undermining those goals, the legislature should be finding ways to help more Kentucky communities reduce solid waste and save Kentucky land. Just ask the folks in Scott County.<\/p>\n<p><em>To read the full story, visit <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article136388318.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article136388318.html<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0passionate opposition\u00a0to a proposed landfill expansion in Scott County reminds us that reducing solid waste is key to protecting Kentucky land from being converted to landfill. 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