Highlighting Jobs Benefits, Activists Seek To Spur Landfill Waste Diversion

摘要

A group of environmental and labor organizations is preparing to release a study that finds job growth can be encouraged through waste policies and regulations such as disposal bans, pay-as-you-throw laws, extended producer responsibility and expedited permitting processes that encourage recycling, composting and other waste diversion methods. The information and recommendations in the report, entitled More Jobs, Less Pollution: Growing the Recycling Economy in the US, can be applied to all levels of government, although "the clearest implications are for national level work," according to a source with one of the sponsoring groups.