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Local governments are using innovative strategies to reduce waste within the state.
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With the state's goal of a 40 percent reduction in waste entering landfills and incinerators by the year 2001, residents are learning to precycle, recycle, and compost.
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With solid waste increasing and landfills bulging, the state's counties and municipalities face hard choices in choosing types of disposal and recycling technologies, deciding on landfill locations, and finding money to pay for the programs.
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Begun in 1990, the state's Solid Waste Management Trust Fund has awarded 118 grants totaling over $2 million to assist towns in waste reduction plans. Farmville in Pitt County used a grant to begin recycling office paper.
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The Triangle area is facing landfill shortages. Voluntary recycling has increased in the Triangle over the last few years, but by 2013, Durham, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill will see all of their landfills filled. The Triangle and area politicians need to get serious about waste reduction and recycling efforts.
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North Carolina’s Pollution Prevention Pays Program has been cited as the nation’s most comprehensive and most focused on waste reduction. The program targets all forms of waste and works with local governments and state agencies, as well as business and industry. The program offers industries financial incentives, and supports university research aimed at developing techniques to reduce the generation of hazardous waste and prevent pollution.
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Food science specialists at North Carolina State University say that present economic incentives for water conservation and waste minimization in the food industries are very strong, and assistance provided by North Carolina’s Pollution Prevention Pays Program is enhancing those incentives. Public perception has also been an important incentive for waste reduction in the food industries.
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North Carolina is moving towards waste reduction and pollution prevention measures, because it is more cost-effective to avoid producing waste than to clean or treat waste. Representatives of the North Carolina Pollution Prevention Program and the Hazardous Waste Management Branch believe obstacles to adopt waste reduction/pollution prevention as a national priority may have become institutionalized.