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• <br /> 9 <br /> can be for everything from recycling equipment tti incinerator <br /> c.onstruetion. <br /> 4 ) The State should promote the use of recycled products by <br /> giving a 10% price preference to the purchase of products with <br /> recycled content and to contractors who use products with <br /> recycled 'content . The State purchases of recycled paper should <br /> be at least 10% percent of its total paper purchases by January <br /> 1, 1991 . <br /> 5 ) The State Solid Waste Branch should be the clearinghouse for <br /> information regarding solid waste management . • <br /> 6 ) The General Assembly should make it clear that cities and <br /> counties can, under their authority to regulate solid waste : <br /> require source separation of recyclables; <br /> require participation in a government-approved recycling <br /> program; <br /> require county or city landfills to accept for disposal only <br /> that solid waste which was generated in the geographic area <br /> their landfill was permitted to serve . <br /> 7 ) A county landfill has conditional authority to charge a <br /> municipality located in the county a solid taste disposal fee if <br /> that, county also charge.s other users a fee. Presently, if the <br /> landfill is .run with general revenue funds , counties are <br /> prohibited from charging municipalities within their boundaries n <br /> fee . <br /> 8) Consolidation of environmental agencies . <br /> 9 ) Continuation of the Legislative Study Committee on Solid Waste <br /> which is statutorily slated to expire on December 31 , 1988 . <br /> • <br /> • <br /> • <br /> 1 <br />