All solid waste generated within the City of Laurel and other member agencies of the Pine Belt Regional Solid Waste Management Authority must go through the facility.
The Laurel City Council recently approved the second reading of an ordinance requiring mandatory flow of municipal solid waste, establishing penalties for violation thereof, and establishing an effective date, which begins Jan. 15. The council on Dec. 2 unanimously approved the introduction of the ordinance requiring mandatory flow of municipal solid waste for its first reading.
James “Tony” Harrison, the executive director of the Pine Belt Regional Solid Waste Management Authority, said the authority had previously asked each member city and county to adopt a flow control ordinance.
“This is an ordinance that directs all municipal or county solid waste picked up within the boundary of the city and county be disposed of in the regional authority,” Harrison said. “Laurel is part owner of this. The more solid waste we receive, the cheaper it is to operate the facility.”
Harrison said when the authority originally requested the flow control ordinances, the City of Laurel only amended its previous order. However, a new order was needed.
“Laurel’s order was not redone, it was amended,” he said. “They didn’t change the definition of garbage to municipal solid waste.”
In the city’s order approved earlier this month, the ordinance states that “all municipal solid waste generated within the geographic boundaries of the City of Laurel that is placed in the waste stream shall be transported to, stored and managed at the Pine Belt Regional Solid Waste Management Authority’s landfill in Perry County or at a transfer station owned by the Pine Belt Regional Solid Waste Management Authority.”
The Pine Belt Regional Solid Waste Management Authority has representation for several governmental agencies in the area including Laurel.
Harrison said the authority is one of four in the state and represents five counties — Jones, Perry, Covington, Stone and Jefferson Davis counties — and three cities — Laurel, Hattiesburg and Petal.
According to the city’s new ordinance, which takes effect Jan. 15, it shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision of this ordinance. Violation of the ordinance shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days or by both at the direction of the municipal judge.
Harrison said the new ordinance helps the authority “to operate uniformly.”
Earlier, the council in November approved a resolution authorizing an update to the Pine Belt Regional Solid Waste Management Authority’s master plan.
Officials said the master plan would not affect any particular industry, but that the document was just updating the authority’s overall plan for the facility.
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