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| | THE SOCIETY OF THE PLASTICS INDUSTRY, INC., ET AL., RESPONDENTS, v. COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, ET AL., APPELLANTS. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Section 1 of the Plastics Law restates the County Legislature's findings that discarded packaging constituted the largest single category of waste within the County, and that discarded nonbiodegradable packaging and plastics (particularly polystyrene and polyvinyl chloride) were a fundamental cause of municipal waste disposal problems, rapidly filling landfill space and introducing toxic byproducts if incinerated. |
 | | Plaintiff Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. (SPI) is a nationwide nonprofit trade organization of more than 2,000 members, with offices in Washington, D.C., representing all segments of the plastics industry; at least eight unspecified member companies are in Suffolk County. |
 | | The Plastics Law is not simply a regulation of landfills (Majority Opn, at 24-25).9 The Plastics Law establishes a set of comprehensive regulations for all of the residents of Suffolk County which assertedly will produce, as the Appellate Division noted, a "broad range of potential environmental harms" (154 AD2d 179, 182). |
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