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4 <br /> Goal 8 : Ta- ensure that adequate , environmentally sound disposal <br /> capacity is available in the present and ideally for the next -tee <br /> twenty years. <br /> Goal 9 : To undergo proactive planning, site screening, site <br /> selection, and design of required new landfill capacity and provide <br /> operation of existing facilities that will meet all federal, state <br /> and local requirements and reduce the risk of environmental <br /> degradation. <br /> Goal 10 : To evaluate tie pete -tial for energy recovery from the <br /> waste stream and incorporate waste to cagy tcchnelogy into <br /> Goal 11 : To effectively reduce and eventually eliminate littering <br /> and illegal dumping of solid waste within a local government' s <br /> jurisdiction Chapel Hill. <br /> SECTION FOUR - ALTERNATIVES TO DISPOSAL: SOURCE REDUCTION, REUSE, <br /> RECYCLING AND COMPOSTING <br /> Goal 12: To reduce the amount of North Carolina' s waste requiring <br /> development and expansion of recycling, rcusc, and source reduction <br /> v1. t <br /> Through sound management practices and through the development and <br /> expansion of source reduction, reuse, and recycling opportunities, <br /> reduce the amount of Chapel Hill' s waste requiring disposal. <br /> Goal 13 : To assess, develop and implement education programs , <br /> policies and incentives which promote source reduction and reuse <br /> and discourage waste generation. <br /> Goal 14 : To increase the number and types of recycling services <br /> provided to maximize recovery of materials, while minimizing <br /> recycling system costs. <br /> Goal 15 : To effectively manage organic waste materials in an <br /> environmentally sound manner which yields a useable product and <br /> diverts a significant portion of the waste stream from disposal in <br /> MSW facilities and cost effective manner which diverts that waste <br /> stream from MSW facilities. <br /> Goal 16 : Design, develop .'and implement public information, <br /> awareness and education programs designed to increase public <br /> awareness of the need for, and public involvement in the <br /> implementation of source reduction, recycling and composting, and <br /> to promote environmentally sound and cost-effective integrated <br /> solid waste management. <br /> • <br />