GA Proposal: Repeal: “Landfill Regulation Act”

[HumanSanity]

Repeal: “Landfill Regulation Act”

A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.

Category: Repeal

Resolution: GA#520

Proposed by: whatermelons

General Assembly Resolution #520 “Landfill Regulation Act” (Category: Environmental; Industry Affected: All Businesses - Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

The World Assembly,

Observing the excessive micromanagement in General Assembly Resolution #520, “Landfill Regulation Act”, which includes mandating that member nations create agencies to ensure compliance, unnecessary handholding and bureaucracy that is better left to be decided by member nations themselves;

Further observing that this overreach ignores member nations who use private companies to survey environments, which results in member nations being forced to create agencies they will not use, meaning that the bureaucracy is even more pointless;

Concerned that the poor definition of SWL includes locations such as scrap metal yards, which pose little to no significant harm to public health or the surrounding environment, resulting in harsh mandates being placed on these ‘landfills’ that could cost exorbitant amounts of money;

Dismayed that systems for the collection and removal of leachate are mandated regardless of the potential danger the leachate causes to public health or to the environment, yet another excessively broad mandate;

Further concerned that implementing such unnecessary regulations negatively affect the operations of ‘solid waste landfills’ with very little potential positive benefit;

Realising that placing these mandates on SWLs without any form of subsidy or funding could lead to costs being passed on to the consumers, therefore giving them incentives to dispose of solid waste at unregulated areas instead and defeat the resolution’s purpose of protecting the environment from solid waste;

Convinced that a poorly executed and overreaching resolution ought to be repealed, hereby:

Repeals General Assembly Resolution 520, “Landfill Regulation Act”.

This is the discussion thread. To cast your vote, go HERE

[Eist]

Newbie here, is there any way I can see how I voted on the original? I'm just interested more than anything.

This seems to be a repeal for the sake of repealing though:

"Excessive micromanagement" is purely subjective. For me at least, it is a dubious criticism since having a resolution that specifically deals with environmental solid waste is not unreasonable.

A large portion of the repeal talks about scrap metal yards, but these are not nominally for "waste", they're for recycling. It's completely different. The original literally says "a location that receives nonhazardous solid waste for the purposes of long-term or permanent storage". That doesn't apply to scrap metal yards. It's a complete misrepresentation and a bad faith argument to me.

"without any form of subsidy or funding could lead to costs being passed on to the consumers". Every proposal in Environmental does this. The point is to protect the environment and the people at the (at least short term) expense of industry. If you want a Libertarian paradise with Industry with no regulations, like the author here seems to, then the WA is just not for you.

In general because Repeals are so much easier to write and pass, I tend to hold them to a higher standard. I think this is pointless, and the arguments often miss the mark if I am being polite. I am therefore AGAINST this repeal.

[Jabberwocky]

Well said. Against.

[Porflox]

As Eist said, I generally am against appeals unless they have a really good reason, as it's so much easier to say something is bad, than to come up with an original idea.
Voting Against