Sustainable solid waste management hierarchy

  1. Law
  2. District of Columbia Code
  3. Environmental and Animal Control and Protection
  4. Solid Waste Reduction and Recovery
  5. Sustainable solid waste management hierarchy

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To the maximum extent practicable, the District shall direct its solid waste management policies and diversion activities in the following order of priority:

(1) Source reduction and reuse;

(2) Recycling or composting of solid waste, or conversion of compostable solid waste into biofuel; and

(3) Landfill or incineration of solid waste.

(Feb. 26, 2015, D.C. Law 20-154, § 102, 61 DCR 9971.)


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