Sustainability Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2012 05 16

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WHEREAS, waste prevention, reuse, recycling, and composting are materials-management options that help conserve natural and manufactured resources for future use, while reducing our own local- environment adverse impacts; and WHEREAS, increased recycling helps save energy, water, and natural resources expended for production of goods; reduces air and water pollution resulting from manufacturing processes; and reduces land- use damage caused by extracting resources for production of goods; and WHEREAS, resource-recovery-based local practices can create and sustain more jobs than landfill-or incineration-disposal operations, and so help improve our local economy; and WHEREAS, increased local recycling and composting will increase the cost-efficiency of ourregional publicly supported recycling facility(the Boulder-County Materials Recycling Facility) and local and regional recycling/reuse business ventures; and WHEREAS, the Boulder-County Zero-Waste Plan was created by county staff members, local professional consultants, and local volunteers;following detailed surveysof the types of materials that are disposed in landfills; the relative volumes of those materials; the local and regional options for reuse or non-landfill disposal of those materials; and refined followingpublic-meeting input from Boulder- County residentsand businesses,andmembers of the County Resource Conservation Advisory Board;and WHEREAS, increased recycling will help reduce the need for Louisville –and all Boulder County -residents to impose on their neighboring counties for the use of their landfill facilities, and so increase their burdens of long-term landfill management; and WHEREAS, the Louisville City Council desires the City of Louisville to continue to demonstratea leadership role inreducing the volumes of waste materials disposed by our residents, and increasing the diversion of those waste materials from landfill disposal; Page 2of 3