Pitkin County Resource Recovery Department Solid Waste Management Strategy

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Pitkin County Resource Recovery
DepartmentSolid Waste Management Strategy

• Ideas for Today and Tomorrow

Chris Hoofnagle Solid Waste Manager [phone]
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Vision Statement

• Resource Recovery Purpose and Mission
• Pitkin County Resource Recovery serves the public
  through the education of our community, diversion
  of recoverable materials, and proper waste
  management to protect the environment.

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Goal and Objective

• Extend Life of Landfill through diversion
• Diversion of recoverables serves the public in
  several ways
• hazardous materials diversion prevents pollution
• conventional recycling promotes natural resource
  conservation
• protecting airspace is extending landfill
  lifecycle
• longer landfill life prevents costs of exporting
  waste
• longer landfill life serves community desires to
  manage local waste locally.

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Diversion Programs

• Traditional Recyclables
• Household Hazardous Waste
• Composting and Organics recycling
• Aggregate Recovery
• Scrap Metal recycling
• Scrap Tires recycling
• Electronics recycling

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Todays Situation
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Methods

• Co-located operations
• Source Separation
• Differential Tipping Fees
• Volume Based Tipping Fees

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Future Development

• Improve existing programs
• Promoting deconstruction and re-use
• Processing construction and demolition debris
  (CD)
• Enhancing organics recycling beyond composting
• Sorting at the working face

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