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Title: 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 (970) 923-3487
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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

5
Todays Situation
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Methods
  • Co-located operations
  • Source Separation
  • Differential Tipping Fees
  • Volume Based Tipping Fees

7
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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