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Why does the Town want to know about your waste services?
Extended Producer Responsibility
The state recently passed theProducer Responsibility Program for Statewide Recycling Act (HB22-1355), also known as “EPR” (extended producer responsibility). HB 22-1355 establishes a Producer Responsibility program that requires companies (aka “Producers”) that sell paper products and products in packaging to fund a statewide recycling system to collect and recycle those materials. This program will be rolling out over the next few years.
What exactly does EPR mean for residents?
Free Recycling Services: Over the next few years, the program shifts 100% of recycling costs to businesses that supply packaging materials into the state, or printed paper, printed goods.
Expanded Access: The approved plan is projected to bring no-cost recycling to an estimated 700,000 more households by 2030.
Sustainability Action Plan
Superior’s Sustainability Action Plan has ambitiousgoals to divert 50% of waste from landfills for apartments. In the plan, the Town also commits to exploring composting options for apartments by facilitating conversations with providers, providing incentives, and/or identifying grant funding. We need to know more about current services and resident desires to help achieve these goals.
Equitable Compost & Recycling Access
The Town is able to provide waste service directly to many of our residents in single-family homes through our waste contract. That service was recently improved to include every other week compost collection and every week recycling collection. While the Town is not able to expand that service to cover apartment complexes for various reasons including municipal code and how that waste is collected, we want to better understand any barriers that may exist now for residents to look for opportunities to help increase access to recycling and composting in the future.
Take the anonymous survey for a chance to receive a $50 gift card to a local business of your choice!
Why does the Town want to know about your waste services?
Extended Producer Responsibility
The state recently passed theProducer Responsibility Program for Statewide Recycling Act (HB22-1355), also known as “EPR” (extended producer responsibility). HB 22-1355 establishes a Producer Responsibility program that requires companies (aka “Producers”) that sell paper products and products in packaging to fund a statewide recycling system to collect and recycle those materials. This program will be rolling out over the next few years.
What exactly does EPR mean for residents?
Free Recycling Services: Over the next few years, the program shifts 100% of recycling costs to businesses that supply packaging materials into the state, or printed paper, printed goods.
Expanded Access: The approved plan is projected to bring no-cost recycling to an estimated 700,000 more households by 2030.
Sustainability Action Plan
Superior’s Sustainability Action Plan has ambitiousgoals to divert 50% of waste from landfills for apartments. In the plan, the Town also commits to exploring composting options for apartments by facilitating conversations with providers, providing incentives, and/or identifying grant funding. We need to know more about current services and resident desires to help achieve these goals.
Equitable Compost & Recycling Access
The Town is able to provide waste service directly to many of our residents in single-family homes through our waste contract. That service was recently improved to include every other week compost collection and every week recycling collection. While the Town is not able to expand that service to cover apartment complexes for various reasons including municipal code and how that waste is collected, we want to better understand any barriers that may exist now for residents to look for opportunities to help increase access to recycling and composting in the future.
Recycling: Collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown in the trash and remanufacturing them into new products, materials, or substances. It diverts trash from landfills and recovers valuable resources that can be used again.
Compost: Nature’s way of recycling organic matter like dead leaves, lawn trimmings, food scraps such as a banana peel, and expired food, including meat and dairy products that can be broken down and used as fertilizer for soil.
