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Excerpt from Solid Waste Management: Report to the 1989 General Assembly of North Carolina, 1989 Session Traditionally solid waste management has been considered a local matter. Counties and municipalities voluntarily undertook the responsibilities of garbage collection and disposal in the days when solid waste was not in common usage. The State of North Carolina had no role in solid waste management until the 1930's when the Sanitary Engineering Division of the State Board of Health began to provide consultive assistance to counties and municipalities regarding garbage management. This practice continued until 197i. In 1968 a survey was conducted which revealed that there were 456 open dumps in North Carolina. Soon after in 1969, the General Assembly authorized the establishment of a State Solid Waste Management Program.. Chapter 899 of the 1969 Session Laws. In I97l the first State Solid Waste Management Rules were adopted. These rules primarily addressed vermin control and Open burning at landfills. Nonetheless, the Solid Waste Management Program primarily remained directed toward providing technical assistance. In 1980 the Division of Health Services, Solid and Hazardous Waste Branch, within the Department of Human Resources, was granted authority to impose penalties upon sanitary landfill operators for violations of Solid Waste Management Rules. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to pre