| Local Policy Description: | The city and county shall promote solid waste management practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote community understanding of the relationship between solid waste reduction and global climate change. The city and country plan to achieve emission reduction goals through the use of the principles listed below.
Principles for Reducing Emissions from Solid Waste
1. Reduce the generation of solid waste, including source prevention and reduction in packaging and other excess materials.
2. Recover materials from the waste stream for direct reuse and remanufacture into new products.
3. Reuse products whenever possible.
4. Recycle materials whenever possible.
5. Purchase recycled-content products.
The city and county plan to pursue reductions via the specific internal local government actions and community initiatives listed below.
The government will take action by 2003 to:
Track waste disposal and recycling practices and quantities at all city and county facilities.
Establish city and county policies to use recycled antifreeze, recycled latex paint, and paper with at least 30 percent post-consumer recycled-content paper. Investigate establishing standards for the purchase of additional recycled-content products.
Evaluate purchasing printers and copiers with duplexing capacity and making duplexing the default setting.
Seek approval to hire a county pollution-prevention specialist to reduce environmental and human health risks from air-, water-, and land-based pollutants.
The government will take action by 2010 to:
Continue to improve internal city and county waste prevention practices.
Achieve a solid waste recovery rate of 60 percent at city and county facilities.
Hire a city resource-conservation manager to reduce solid waste and the use of energy, water, and other resources at city facilities.
Hold city and county agency managers directly responsible for resource-conservation practices in their agencies.
Conduct employee awareness campaigns at the city, county, and other partner businesses and organizations.
Require city and county contractors and vendors to document the use of recovered materials in their products and follow environmentally responsible solid waste management.
Expand city and county recycling of asphalt and other street material.
The community will take action by 2003 to:
Improve and expand curbside recycling and other residential recycling services.
Assist 150 local businesses in developing and implementing improved waste management practices, and continue to expand commercial recycling programs and services.
Promote the continued development of the local building deconstruction and material salvage industries.
Encourage contractors to recycle street and other infrastructure materials.
Implement a commercial food-waste collection program.
Work with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and other jurisdictions to develop mechanisms to ensure extended product responsibility.
The community will take action by 2010 to:
Explore residential food waste-collection options.
Investigate opportunities for waste-recovery technologies.
Promote the reuse and recovery of electronic devices.
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