It is this state's policy to safeguard the health, general welfare, and physical property of the people and to protect the environment by encouraging the reduction in solid waste generation and the proper management of solid waste, including disposal and processing to extract usable materials or energy. Encouraging a cooperative effort among federal, state, and local governments and private enterprise, to accomplish the purposes of this chapter, will further that policy.
Tex. Health & Safety Code § 363.002
POLICY
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case De La Garza v. City of McAllen (1994)
Most recently applied in De La Garza v. City of McAllen (August 1994)
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff
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