The Broward Solid Waste Authority’s long-awaited master plan for the future of garbage disposal and recycling in the county has finally dropped, in draft form.
“The Draft Master Plan outlines a strategic path forward to significantly decrease waste generation, increase diversion, reduce landfill dependence, and transition to a unified, more circular and resilient solid waste management system,” says an accompanying statement released by the Solid Waste Authority (SWA).
Executive Director Todd Storti described the 67-page draft plan as a “data-driven vision for the next 40 years’’ focused “around a singular but transformative goal: Zero Waste to Landfill.” It will require “a cultural shift toward minimizing waste at the source, maximizing beneficial reuse and recycling, and fundamentally rethinking how materials move through our economy –- from product design to end-of-life,” he wrote…