Description
The City offers several programs to ensure the safe and responsible disposal of materials.
This strategy focuses on exploring options to enhance the City’s current level of service and launching a coordinated environmental management system3 to help prioritize the most important facilities, standardize procedures, clarify roles and responsibilities and provide a method for determining best return on investment for decision-making.
3 An environmental management system is a set of processes for training of personnel, monitoring, summarizing and reporting that enable an organization to reduce its environmental impacts and increase its operating efficiency.
Components
- Increase education about the City’s Stormwater Hotline and other options for voluntary reporting of illegal dumping.
- Explore options to expand the types of materials accepted at city recycling drop-off locations and through the household hazardous waste program.
- Pilot and expand an environmental management system (e.g., ISO 14001) to provide more comprehensive management and documentation of the City’s environmental and safety programs.