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RETH INK Op RECYCLING® About the Regional Master Plan Master Plan Framework The framework for the regional strategies found in this Regional Master Plan is built around a regional vision, key themes, a solid waste management hierarchy and policies that are outlined in the Policy Plan. For background purposes, the following is a brief overview of the key tenets of the Policy Plan: A. Vision The Policy Plan is designed to assist all stakeholders in reaching the State's objectives for solid waste management. In all of its related efforts, SWMCB will follow the Policy Plan's vision for sustainability: A sustainable community minimizes waste, prevents pollution, promotes efficiency, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, saves energy and deve lops resources to revitalize local economies. The integrated waste management system is an essential component of the infrastructure of a sustainable community. Solid waste must be managed by technologies and methods that support sustainable communities and environments. The solid waste management hierarchy, with its associated objectives of protecting the State's air, land, water, and other natural resources and the public health, is central to attaining the twin objectives of sustainability and solid waste management, because it emphasizes source reduction and reuse over land disposal (2010 Metropolitan Solid Waste Policy Plan page 6). B. Key Themes The following key themes underlie all solid waste management recommendations within the Policy Plan and are also incorporated into the vision of this Regional Master Plan (2010 Metropolitan Solid Waste Policy Plan pages 6 -7): - Accountability - Waste as a resource - Solid waste management hierarchy - Generator responsibility - Government as a leader - Product stewardship - Private sector initiative 2011 -2030 Regional Solid Waste Master Plan Approved by the Solid Waste Management Coordinating Board on December 14, 2011 Appendix V Page 11