The purpose of this subchapter is to:
(A) Regulate the location, operation, and care of waste management facilities dealing with the storage, transfer, treatment, or disposal of hazardous and low-level radioactive waste within the county;
(B) Assure that the best management practices are used in handling such waste;
(C) Assure that before such waste is placed into permanent or long-term storage, the best available technology is used in treating such waste including, but not by way of limitation, reuse, transfer and transportation, recycling, neutralization, detoxification, incineration, and maximum volume reduction; and
(D) Assure that, when these alternatives are not technologically feasible, retrievable above-ground storage (or retrievable below-ground if such wastes are explosive or flammable) be used in lieu of other means of disposal until appropriate methods for recycling or detoxification of the stored wastes are found, as directed by G.S. Chapter 130A, Article 9.
(Ord. passed 6-4-1984)