2003 Senate Bill 498 ↩

House Roll Call 19: Passed

To make it a crime to knowingly dispose more than a "de minimis" amount of beverage containers, whole tires, or yard waste in Michigan landfills, and to make it a crime to deposit oil, lead acid batteries, low-level radioactive waste, hazardous materials, sewage, liquid waste, PCBs or asbestos in a landfill, whether knowingly or not. It is already a crime to knowingly dispose medical waste in a landfill. “De minimis” is defined as an incidental disposal of small amounts commingled with other solid waste. The bill would allow the disposal of beverage containers, whole tires, or yard waste in Michigan landfills if the Department of Environmental Quality determined that there was no place else to put them.