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Iowa City outlines EMS goals and a roof‑shingles recycling target as a test case for climate metrics
Summary
Staff described the city’s Environmental Management System (EMS) process used to set measurable objectives and targets. The landfill’s roof‑shingles recycling objective aims to increase recycled tonnage by 10% from a FY24 baseline of 335 tons to about 368 tons, measured against FY26 results.
Staff presented the city’s participation in the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Environmental Management System (EMS) as a framework to set measurable objectives and targets tied to continuous environmental improvement.
Under EMS the city organizes projects into six component areas (hazardous materials, organics, water quality, greenhouse gas reduction, recycling services and environmental education). Staff described the EMS format: an objective and target split into action and subject, adoption date, metric and time period,…
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