(415 ILCS 5/Tit. V heading)\nTITLE V: LAND POLLUTION AND REFUSE DISPOSAL\n(415 ILCS 5/20) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1020)\nSec. 20. (a) The General Assembly finds:\n(1) that economic and population growth and new methods of manufacture, packaging, and marketing, without the parallel growth of facilities enabling and ensuring the recycling, reuse and conservation of natural resources and solid waste, have resulted in a rising tide of scrap and waste materials of all kinds;\n(2) that excessive quantities of refuse and inefficient and improper methods of refuse disposal result in scenic blight, cause serious hazards to public health and safety, create public nuisances, divert land from more productive uses, depress the value of nearby property, offend the senses, and otherwise interfere with community life and development;\n(3) that the failure to salvage and reuse scrap and refuse results in the waste and depletion of our natural resources and contributes to the degradation of our environment;\n(4) that hazardous waste presents, in addition to the problems associated with non-hazardous waste, special dangers to health and requires a greater degree of regulation than does non-hazardous ent;\n(4) that hazardous waste presents, in addition to the problems associated with non-hazardous waste, special dangers to health and requires a greater degree of regulation than does non-hazardous waste;\n(5) that Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976
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