9053-19 - Adopt County Solid Waste Mangement Plan

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Cuyahoga County Solid Waste Management Plan Update (December 2018) Chapter 5: Waste Reduction and Recycling encouraging the switch from recycling collection using blue bags to recycling collection using carts as well as increasing recycling participation and reducing contamination. Municipal Contracting Consortiums The District will continue to manage two municipal contracting consortiums —so|id waste transfer and disposal consortium (O members) and recycling processing consortium (11 members). These consortiums have helped the participating cities, who collect their own waste and recyc\ab\es, obtain favorable and competitive pricing for solid waste services. Special Assistance for Low Performing Communities The District will provide special assistance to communities with curbside recycling rates lower than the national average of 300 pounds per household per year. The assistance may include conducting focus groups to identify reasons for the low recycling rate, focusing education in those communities and additional resources intended to help the community improve. Drop-Off Re Recycling Drop-off recycling opportunities will continue to be offered by many communities during the planning period. Currently, multi-material drop-offs are offered by 15 communities and accept cans, glass, plastic containers, mixed paper and cardboard. In addition, limited-material drop-offs are offered by 23 communities and typically accept cans, paper and cardboard. See Table 5-4 at the conclusion of this chapter for a list of multi-material, drop-off programs. The District may obtain data on drop-off site users by surveying participants at certain community drop-off sites to ascertain why they use the site, how they learned about the site how far they traveled and other recycling habits. This information could be used to help develop the fiber drop- off Multi-Family Recycling Technical Assistance to Support Multi-Family Housing Recycling Programs and Consortiums The District will continue to offer technical assistance to property owners and managers to establish recycling in apartment buildings. Residents living in multi-family housing typically have limited recycling opportunities. The District's Business Recycling Specialist has assisted many properties identify recycling opportunity, potential cost savings, and assists with program implementation, troubleshooting and tenant education. Multi-Family Housing Recycling Guide Part of this assistance will be the development of a Multi-Family Housing Recycling Guide that offers instructions, best practices and case studies for multi-family housing recycling programs. Investigate Public-Private Partnership to Establish Fiber /n High Multi-Family Communities To increase recycling opportunities for residents living in apartment buildings, the District will investigate opportunities to partner with a |oos| paper recyclerto site recycling drop-offs for paper and cardboard. These could be placed in communities with limited or no drop-off recycling infrastructure or those with a high percent of multi-family housing. Collecting just paper and cardboard would reduce the illegal dumping problems associated with multi-material drop-offs but still capture the largest component of the residential waste stream. The containers would be staged at municipal locations.