CITY OF SEATTLE
RESOLUTION __________________
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A RESOLUTION adopting Seattle's 2022 Solid Waste Plan Update: Moving Upstream to Zero Waste; revising the 2011 Revision: Picking Up The Pace Toward Zero Waste; and superseding certain requirements adopted by Resolution 30990.
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WHEREAS, the City Council approved Resolution 29805, adopting Seattle's Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan "On the Path to Sustainability" in August 1998; and
WHEREAS, the City Council approved Resolution 30750 adopting the 2004 Comprehensive Solid Waste Plan Amendment to the 1998 Plan "On the Path to Sustainability" in March 2005; and
WHEREAS, the City Council approved Resolution 31426 adopting the 2011 Revision: Picking Up The Pace Toward Zero Waste in February 2013, accelerating recycle goals established in Resolution 30990 to recycle 70 percent of the municipal solid waste produced within the city by 2022 and 70 percent of the construction and demolition waste produced within the city by the year 2020; and
WHEREAS, the City implemented industry-leading diversion policies and practices that resulted in an all-time high overall recycle rate of approximately 59 percent in 2016, but has been unable to achieve the recycling goals set in Resolution 31426 due to changes in products and packaging beyond the City's control that dramatically altered the composition and volumes of materials in the waste stream; and
WHEREAS, the City's vision of Zero Waste strives for a waste-free society by creating new practices and policies to reduce or reuse waste and build an economy supported by re-use of resources; and
WHEREAS, this Zero Waste vision involves looking at the entire life cycle of materials used to make products and packaging to eliminate waste, prevent pollution, encourage product durability and reusability, conserve natural resources, and build a circular economy; and
WHEREAS, best management practice in the solid waste industry now focus "upstream" to prevent waste, which yi...
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