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Missoula reports 31% waste-diversion, unveils 3–5 year roadmap for '0 by 50' plan
Summary
City and nonprofit officials said Missoula met its interim 30% diversion benchmark and presented a short-term 3–5 year roadmap of education, infrastructure and policy actions — including a 'last chance' donations site opening May 1 — to push toward zero waste by 2050.
Missoula has met an interim waste‑diversion benchmark and outlined short‑term steps to keep the city on track for its long‑term zero‑waste goal, officials said at a Home Resource lunch‑and‑learn.
“We set the goal in 2018, and the big news is we did it — we’re at 31%,” Lee Raderman, community resilience specialist with the City of Missoula, said. Raderman and Kelly Tesick, executive director of Home Resource, presented the outcomes of a six‑week task force that drafted a three‑to‑five‑year implementation roadmap tied to the city’s 0 by 50 plan (zero waste by 2050).
Why it matters: keeping organic materials and reusable goods out of the landfill reduces greenhouse‑gas emissions, protects local water supplies and lowers disposal costs for residents and businesses, presenters said. Raderman noted that while landfill emissions…
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