Waste diversion, odour, and climate change Save article Remove saved article

Clare Booth Luce, the famous American playwright, journalist, ambassador, and congresswoman, used to say, “no good deed goes unpunished.” To my regret, this sardonic and rather depressing phrase is, all too often, a good description of environmental laws.
One example is the management of odour issues from waste diversion. Diversion of organics from landfill is an important public policy objective, for many reasons, including:

• Organics are an important soil fertility resource, at a time