Sustainability Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2012 05 16

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The result of that development process is a Plan whose scope is broad and deep. A wide variety of waste materials are covered by it. A wide range of procedures to deal with those waste materials are covered. Results that can be expected by followingits recommendations are covered, for short-and long-term efforts. Formal adoption of the Plan as a guiding document for our citywill allow us totake advantage of the detailed analyses done by county staff members and county-contracted consultants. And that will be better than if our own various city departments and boards were to spend time and monies on redundant studies to try to determine what has already been determined by Boulder County’s Zero-Waste Plan. We are glad to note that theCity of Louisville already follows severalof the Plan’s proposals: Louisville has likely the best and most comprehensive community-wide compost- recyclables-trash collection program within Boulder County, and one of the best within the state (p 17 of the plan).Our program gives us the highest trash-diversion rate currently achieved with the county, over40%! Besides our community-wide compost-collection program, many residents still do their own backyard composting for their yards and gardens (p 18). Our community-wide compost-recyclables-trash collection program includes a Pay- As-You-Throw pricing structure, which provides residents with an economic incentive to reducetheir volume of collected trash, and it provides free (embedded) recycling (p 20). Louisville continues tooffer residents an option for local tree-limb drop-off (p 19). Louisville providesa drop-off site for local collection of scrap metals (p 22). A few years ago, following a recommendation from LRCAB, our city adopted an ordinance to improve the onsite collection of recyclables at multi-family residential units (p 26). Our city staff have established their own internal Sustainability Committee, which deals with waste-reduction practices for staff and city-owned facilities. Recent visible results of their work are the waste-collection bins now in place in city buildings, for collection of compostables-recyclables-trash (p 27). Our cityimplemented zero-waste practices at community-wide events, such as the th July 4and Labor-Day Fall Festival events at Community Park(p 38). Events coordinator Kay Gazaway has reported to us they’ve had an 85%-plus diversion- from-landfill rate at those events! Page 2of 3