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Minutes --Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> April 11 , 2002 <br /> Approved May 9, 2002 <br /> Pollock gave a summary of the State' s Annual solid waste management report and <br /> the Orange County waste reduction program . The key component of the State <br /> report is the fact that the amount of solid waste landfilled and incinerated per <br /> person in North Carolina increased from 1 . 08 tons per person in 1991 - 92 to 1 . 21 tons <br /> per person in 2000 - 01 . The state goal was to decrease the amount by 40 % during <br /> that time period . <br /> The State report puts forward several hypotheses about why waste increased <br /> despite the implementation of recycling and waste reduction programs throughout <br /> the State in the early 1990s, most of which have continued to this day . <br /> • Alternative Technologies such as incineration and mixed waste composting did <br /> not develop as anticipated . <br /> • Flow control, the ability of local governments to dictate where waste generated <br /> within their boundaries went, was declared unconstitutional in 1995 , thus private <br /> haulers were able to take the waste they collected wherever they chose and were <br /> not subject to local regulation and waste reduction efforts . <br /> • Statewide , the commitment to waste reduction has waned over the years . While <br /> goals remained, the public investment and commitment to meeting those goals <br /> generally were not made . <br /> • The cost of landfilling has not increased as projected, making the relative <br /> economics of alternative means of managing waste less attractive . <br /> • North Carolina' s healthy economic growth in the 1990s was accompanied by <br /> increases in retail sales of 30 % per capita ( adjusted for inflation) thus more <br /> waste was generated . <br /> • Construction boomed during this decade and its portion of the waste stream <br /> increased from 22 % to 29 % . <br /> While Orange County experienced about 26 % growth during the 1990s from a <br /> population of 93 , 000 to 118, 000 and growth in wealth and retail sales , our waste <br /> landfilled per capita declined . The County' s Solid Waste Management Department <br /> believes there are several causes for this : <br /> 4 <br />