Bylaw 31/2018 Amendment to Waste Management Bylaw Agenda Item: 5C
Town of Cochrane Council Report Meeting: Regular Council Meeting Date: October 9, 2018 Originated By: Fabrizio Bertolo, Manager, Waste & Recycling Title: Bylaw 31/2018 Amendment to Waste Management Bylaw Agenda Item: 5c RECOMMENDED ACTION That Council gives First Reading to Bylaw 31/2018. STRATEGIC / SUSTAINABILITY PLAN ITEM Town of Cochrane Strategic Plan 1.2 Future infrastructure, facilities and plans be developed and implemented to accommodate growth. 1.4 Promote/Advocate the Cochrane Sustainability Plan by aligning our plans and actions. 3.3 Promote and celebrate a culture of engagement, customer service, innovation, responsibility and accountability. Cochrane Sustainability Plan 4. We contribute to the solution on climate change BACKGROUND Attached for First Reading is Bylaw 31/2018 which proposes to amend Town of Cochrane Waste Management Bylaw 08/2018, to reduce residential waste pick up (black carts) from every week to every two weeks. Council adopted the Zero Waste Framework in the Fall of 2012 as the Town of Cochrane’s waste management vision. The Zero Waste Framework outlines how Cochrane can achieve Zero Waste by focusing on reducing our environmental footprint by minimizing the amount of waste that must be landfilled through waste reduction, reuse, recycling, redesign, composting and other actions. The overall vision is Zero Waste with the interim goal of 80% of waste diverted from the landfill by 2020. The Zero Waste Framework identifies 5 Pathways to achieving our goals: Organics (in all sectors), Multi-family Recycling, Industrial Commercial Institutional Recycling, Construction & Demolition Recycling and Events & Public Spaces. Diversion Rate for the Town of Cochrane moved from 31% (2016) to 61% after the implementation of the Organics program.
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