Public Act 90-0266 of the 90th General Assembly
Public Act 90-0266
HB1411 Enrolled LRB9000245DPccA
AN ACT to amend the Environmental Protection Act by
changing Section 22.22.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended
by changing Section 22.22 as follows:
(415 ILCS 5/22.22) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022.22)
Sec. 22.22. Landscape waste.
(a) Beginning July 1, 1990, no person may knowingly mix
landscape waste that is intended for collection or for
disposal at a landfill with any other municipal waste.
(b) Beginning July 1, 1990, no person may knowingly put
landscape waste into a container intended for collection or
disposal at a landfill, unless such container is
biodegradable.
(c) Beginning July 1, 1990, no owner or operator of a
sanitary landfill shall accept landscape waste for final
disposal, except that landscape waste separated from
municipal waste may be accepted by a sanitary landfill if (1)
the landfill provides and maintains for that purpose separate
landscape waste composting facilities and composts all
landscape waste, and (2) the composted waste is utilized, by
the operators of the landfill or by any other person, as part
of the final vegetative cover for the landfill or for such
other uses as soil conditioning material, or the landfill has
received an Agency permit to use source separated and
processed landscape waste as an alternative daily cover and
the landscape waste is processed at a site, other than the
sanitary landfill, that has received an Agency permit before
the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 to process
landscape waste. For purposes of this Section, (i) "source
separated" means divided into its component parts at the
point of generation and collected separately from other solid
waste and (ii) "processed" means shredded by mechanical means
to reduce the landscape waste to a uniform consistency.
(d) The requirements of this Section shall not apply (i)
to landscape waste collected as part of a municipal street
sweeping operation where the intent is to provide street
sweeping service rather than leaf collection, nor (ii) to
landscape waste collected by bar screens or grates in a
sewage treatment system.
(Source: P.A. 86-820; 86-1195.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.