Whenever you buy new tires, each carries an add-on fee of $1 that by law is supposed to be dedicated to landfill cleanup and solid waste management.
Like most, you probably do not like paying a surcharge but don’t complain because you figure it goes to a good cause, just like paying add-ons if you have to pay a court-imposed fine.
Well, think again.
Tens of millions of dollars have been diverted into general funds instead of designated areas such as driver education, training for prosecutors and law enforcement officers, indigent defense and landfill cleanup.
And that is what HB 811 moving through the state House of Representatives is intended to change.