(a) The Legislature finds that litter is a public nuisance and distracts from the beauty of the state and its natural resources. It is therefore necessary to establish and implement a litter control program to coordinate public and private litter control efforts; to establish penalties for littering; to provide for litter pickup programs; to create […]
(a) The department shall administer all funds made available to the department by legislative appropriation or by funds made available by the Division of Highways, as well as federal, state or private grants for remediation of waste tire piles and for the proper disposal of waste tires removed from waste tire piles. (b) All authority […]
(a) The department may sell waste tires collected during remediation of waste tire piles at public auction or to a waste tire monofill, waste tire processing facility or business authorized by the Department of Environmental Protection to accept, store, use or process waste tires. (b) If there is no market in West Virginia for the […]
(a) Any person who has, prior or subsequent to the effective date of this act, illegally disposed of waste tires or has waste tires illegally disposed on his or her property shall be liable for: (1) All costs of removal or remedial action incurred by the department;
In addition to all other remedies provided in this article, the Attorney General of this state, the Department, the prosecuting attorney of any county where any violation of any provision of this article occurs, or any citizen, resident or taxpayer of the county where any violation of any provision of this article occurs, may apply […]
Although the secretary is primarily responsible for remediation of waste tire piles under the provisions of this article, the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health may enforce the public health laws in any instance where the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health determines there is an imminent and substantial endangerment to the public […]
By January 1, 2010, it is the goal of this state to reduce the disposal of municipal solid waste by fifty percent of the amount of per capita solid waste disposed of in 1991.
(a) Each county or regional solid waste authority, as part of the comprehensive litter and solid waste control plan required pursuant to the provisions of section eight, article four, chapter twenty-two-c of this code, shall prepare and adopt a comprehensive recycling plan to assist in the implementation of the recycling goals in section sixteen of […]
(a) On or before October 18, 1992, each municipality described in subsection (b) of this section shall submit a proposal to the Solid Waste Management Board, consistent with the provisions of this section, describing the establishment and implementation of the mandatory recycling program. The Solid Waste Management Board shall review the submitted plans for consistency […]
(a) Imposition. A recycling assessment fee is hereby levied and imposed upon the disposal of solid waste at all solid waste disposal facilities in this state, to be collected at the rate of $2 per ton or part of a ton of solid waste. The fee imposed by this section is in addition to all […]
Unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning or defined elsewhere in this chapter, as used in this article: (1) "Beneficial use" means the use or reuse of whole waste tires or tire derived material which are reused in constructing retaining walls, rebuilding highway shoulders and subbase, building highway crash attenuation barriers and other civil […]
(a) In the absence of either a municipal or a comprehensive county recycling plan pursuant to section eighteen of this article, all agencies and instrumentalities of the state, all primary and secondary schools, where practicable, and private colleges and universities shall implement programs to recycle solid waste. To carry out the purposes of this section, […]
(a) It is the policy of the State of West Virginia that, to the maximum extent possible, all agencies and instrumentalities of the state purchase recycled products. The goal of the state is to achieve a recycled product mix on future purchases. (b) In furtherance of the aforesaid goal, the Secretary of the Department of […]
(a) It is unlawful to dispose of lead-acid batteries in a solid waste landfill in West Virginia. (b) It is unlawful to dispose of tires in a solid waste landfill in West Virginia except for waste tires collected as part of the departments waste tire remediation projects or other collection efforts in accordance with the […]
Recycling facilities, as defined in section two, article fifteen of this chapter, whose only function is to accept free-of-charge, buy or transfer source-separated material or recycled material for resale or transfer for further processing are exempt from the provisions of said article and article four of chapter twenty-two-c and sections one-c and one-f, article two, […]
(a) This section, along with sections twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight and twenty-nine of this article apply to a manufacturer that manufactured an average of more than one thousand covered electronic devices per year in the three-year period immediately preceding the initial registration required in section twenty-five of this article. (b) On or after July 1, […]
(a) Each manufacturer wishing to sell or lease covered electronic devices shall register with the secretary no later than January 1, 2009, and each year thereafter. The secretary shall provide a registration form which at a minimum shall include: (1) The name, address and telephone number of the manufacturer;
(a) Before a manufacturer may offer a covered electronic device for sale or lease in this state, the manufacturer may: (1) Adopt and implement a takeback program; and
(a) Civil action. -– In addition to being subject to injunctive relief under this article, a manufacturer who violates any provision of section twenty-four or twenty-five of this article or of any rule adopted pursuant to said sections is liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 to be collected in a civil action […]
(a) The secretary may assess against any retailer that sells covered electronic devices not authorized for sale in this state a penalty up to $500 for each violation, but not to exceed $5,000 total for the year. The secretary's decision may be appealed to the Environmental Quality Board. (b) A fine under subsection (a) of […]
