National Solid Wastes Management Ass'n v. Meyer

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal, a solid waste trade association and several Wisconsin landfill operators bring a Commerce Clause challenge against a Wisconsin statute. The statute forbids waste generators from using the State’s landfills unless they generate waste in a region that has adopted an “effective recycling program,” as defined by Wisconsin law. The *654district court, while striking down other sections of the statute, upheld the sections under review here. It reasoned that these sections did not discriminate against interstate commerce and that the local benefits outweighed the…