{"id":233051,"date":"2015-08-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/opinion-august-14\/"},"modified":"2015-08-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T07:00:00","slug":"opinion-august-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/opinion-august-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion \u2013 August 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editorial: City Council adopts \u2018Zero Waste\u2019 plan\u00a0to divert all waste by 2040<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

By Scott Sherman | Councilmember<\/p>\n

Last month, the City Council voted to approve an innovative plan that calls for reducing all of the city’s trash to zero by the year 2040.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The plan, called “Zero Waste,” lays out a list of strategies that will achieve a 75 percent trash diversion rate by 2020, a 90 percent rate by 2035, and zero waste by 2040. Our current rate of diversion stands at 67 percent.<\/p>\n

Not only is this good for the environment but the plan is also a good deal for San Diego taxpayers.<\/p>\n

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(l to r) Councilmember Chris Cate, Mayor Kevin Faulconer, Councilmember Sherri Lightner and Mario Sierra, the city\u2019s environmental services director, at the Miramar Landfill. (Courtesy of sandiego.gov)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Zero Waste plan will help prolong the life of the Miramar Landfill. Instead of using taxpayer dollars to build a new landfill, we can instead reduce and reuse.<\/p>\n

To reach the 75 percent diversion rate, the city would need to reduce, reuse, and recycle an additional 332,000 tons of waste annually.<\/p>\n

This will be done by:<\/p>\n

\u2014 Diverting fibrous yard trimmings, 18,000 tons a year.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Require franchise haulers to reach a 50 percent diversion rate by 2020, 94,000 tons per year.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Organics diversion to comply with AB 1826, 120,000 tons per year.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Revisions to the city’s recycling ordinance, 13,000 tons per year.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Creation of a Resource Recovery Center at Miramar Landfill to assist non-franchise haulers to divert much of their material for reuse, 80,000 tons per year.<\/p>\n

I am very excited to see this plan implemented. As always, I would like to hear your feedback and ideas on how we can improve.<\/p>\n

To continue reading the August e-newsletter, please visit bit.ly\/1N1cktO<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Scott Sherman represents District 7 on the San Diego City Council, which includes Mission Valley.<\/em><\/p>\n

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