City of Surrey 2020-2024 Financial Plan

SOLIDWASTE

• Successfully reduced recycling contamination by 50% in select waste collection routes through curbside recycling cart audits and education. By working with residents, we ensured that recyclables are not sent to landfill due to high contamination, recyclables ate processed into quality products • Piloted Repair Café where residents brought items to work with repair specialists to fix their items and return them to working condition. The events ensure that we minimize the amount of waste generated and follows the circular economy approach. The event was successful with over 65 items repaired; and financial penalties for contamination are avoided;

• Hosted four Pop-Up Junk Drop events which provides residents with no cost and convenient disposal options to deliver recycling and waste materials. The events were held between May and July 2018 and approximately 1,000 tonnes of waste and recycled materials were collected of which 60% was diverted from landfill. In addition, over 50 tonnes of reusable materials were recovered by non-profit agencies working with the City; and • Piloted Drop N' Swap Event which provided residents and businesses the

opportunity to recycle unwanted household items, pick up fantastic reused goods or donate to charity. The events diverted 600 pounds of waste from landfill.

FUTURE INITIATIVES, GOALS & INITIATIVES

PUBLIC SAFETY

• Achieve a 50% reduction in illegal dumping in costs and incidents by 2020 with new initiatives including increasing in Large Item Pickup (“LIPU”) participation, increasing and expanding categories of items in the LIPU collection program, and implementing an online scheduling APP .

ECOSYSTEMS

• Implement the Single-Use Items and Plastic Packaging Strategy to reduce impacts on the environment and reduce landfill waste.

INFRASTRUCTURE

• Decrease landfill waste tonnage per household by 3% per year; and • Reduce recycling contamination to achieve a goal of having the lowest amount of non-targeted packaging and printed paper material for a single-stream curbside program in BC over the next three years (Year 3 of 3).

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