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PrintSolid Waste Management Plan & Reporting Updates
Reporting Updates
Reminder: The following hauler reports are due on a quarterly basis.
- Application for Solid Waste Hauler License (2010)
- Application for Special Solid Waste Hauler License (2010)
- Yard Waste Hauler License (2010)
- Designated Facilities Report
- Conversion Table
BACKGROUND:
- The County’s current Solid Waste Management Plan was adopted by the County and local units and approved by the MDEQ in 1999.
- At that time and in that plan there was a focus on providing recycling services primarily via a system of drop-off sites. Additionally, there was a focus on having recycling processing (i.e. sorting and baling) done locally and within an infrastructure (i.e. MRF-Material Recovery Facility) that would be municipally funded and operated (i.e. the County would own it).
PROBLEM:
Some of the core mechanisms for achieving goals and objectives in the County’s Solid Waste Management Plan were abandoned following a failed initiative in 2002. Abandoned mechanisms from the 1999 plan addressed funding, infrastructure and County managed contracting for services.
SOLUTION:
- Per MDEQ requirements, a 14 member board (SWMPC-Solid Waste Management Planning Committee) was appointed by the County Board of Commissioners to study and amend the Solid Waste Management Plan.
- A rather extensive Solid Waste Management Plan Amendment has been drafted and submitted for public review and comment.
PROCESS:
- The SWMPC commenced work on the Amendment in September of 2004.
- Sept. 04-Sept. 05, SWMPC open meetings were held to study the current plan and strategies for amendment.
- An extensive public input process took place between September 2005 and March 2006.
- Drafting of the plan amendment took place at open meetings of the SWMPC from March 2006 through February 2007.
- Plan amendment was released for 90-day public review in April 2007.
AMENDMENT HIGHLIGHTS:
- A shift of emphasis on recycling at the drop-offs to recycling at the curb or on-site
- The elimination of identification of a site in Whitewater township as a landfill siting possibility to no landfills being sited during the planning period (The plan could always be amended again to allow a landfill should the County demonstrate insufficient disposal capacity.)
- A shift in the selected system from being focused on a municipally owned MRF (Material Recovery Facility) to MRF capacity being provided by either private or public entities.
- Other minor phrasings and updates were made as evidenced in the attached amendment.
- The amendment, as with the current plan, allows for contracting for services at the individual, association, local unit and on an Authority-wide level.