Control of pollution from solid wastes : a plea for a conceptual approach

Abstract

"Pollution in the modern context is not a phenomenon but a dilemma. The legal means adopted so far in the effort to control pollution, have on the whole lacked coherency and direction. This absence of even a degree of uniformity has in effect negated the process of identification of viable principles. It is in this context that this paper seeks to project a conceptual approach to the development of legal criteria for the control of pollution. Recent Canadian legislation in regard to pollution from solid wastes is used in this paper as a framework to illustrate the need for a more rational and meaningful approach to pollution control, in order to promote the development of principles in a field where none exist at present. [...]"