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Recommendation to Support City Efforts to Attain a Zero Waste Goal by Approving Update to Zero Waste Implementation Plan and Authorizing the Acting City Manager to Negotiate and Execute a Contract Not to Exceed $300,000, including Contingency, to Conduct Targeted Technical Assistance to Commercial Businesses and Multi-Family Properties; and
Adoption of Resolution Amending the Integrated Waste Fund and Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2018-19. (Public Works 274)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Elizabeth D. Warmerdam, Acting City Manager
Re: Recommendation to Support City Efforts to Attain a Zero Waste Goal by Approving Update to Zero Waste Implementation Plan and Authorizing the Acting City Manager to Negotiate and Execute a Contract Not to Exceed $300,000, including Contingency, to Conduct Targeted Technical Assistance to Commercial Businesses and Multi-Family Properties; and Adoption of Resolution Amending the Integrated Waste Fund and Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2018-19
BACKGROUND
In 2008, the City Council approved the Local Action Plan for Climate Protection (Climate Plan) and established a greenhouse gas reduction goal of 25% below the City's 2005 baseline level. The Climate Plan recommended future adoption of a Zero Waste Implementation Plan (ZWIP), as its implementation could help eliminate an estimated 44,425 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.
In 2010, City Council adopted a ZWIP and set a goal of achieving zero waste, or 89% diversion, from landfill by 2020. The 89% diversion goal derives from a per capita disposal rate, or the amount of waste disposed in pounds into the landfill by person per day (PPD). PPD is calculated by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle). If Alameda were to reach 1.2 pounds PPD, then the City will have achieved the 89% per capita diversion.
In the fall of 2017, City staff initiated a process to develop a ZWIP Update (see Exhibit 1). T...
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