Title
2022 Waste ReSources Management Plan Update
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee.
City Manager Recommendation:
Receive a briefing on the Waste ReSources Management Plan Update and provide feedback.
Report
Issue:
Whether to receive a briefing about the status of the Waste ReSources Management Plan Update Project.
Staff Contact:
Ron Jones, Senior Planner, Public Works Waste ReSources, 360.753.8509
Presenter(s):
Ron Jones, Senior Planner, Public Works Waste ReSources
Gary Franks, Director, Public Works Waste ReSources
Background and Analysis:
The City's Waste ReSources Management Plan (WRP) provides strategic direction for the utility's solid waste collection, education, and outreach programs.
The utility is guided by a Zero Waste Vision (2006 Resolution), which directed the utility to draft its first 6-year master plan in 2008, and then updated in 2015. The City of Olympia fulfills Washington State's regulatory requirement by being a signatory to the Thurston County Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan. The County Plan addresses the solid waste disposal and planning needs for the entire County.
2015 Plan accomplishments include installing two shared compactors in downtown Olympia, a new recycling contract for transload/hauling and processing, routing software that helped expand one-side of road collection and other efficiencies, accommodated growth without adding trucks and drivers, removal of glass from residential and multi-family commingled recycling, and a recycle contamination reduction program, just to name a few.
Over the past year, the utility has been working on its 2022 Waste ReSources Management Plan update. The utility previously met with and briefed the City's Utility Advisory Committee on three occasions (May and June of 2021, and again on May 5, 2022). Staff also met with the Coalition of Neighborhoods in February 2022.
Topics that have been covered in previous meetings include:
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