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Solid waste fee funds household hazardous-waste, e-waste and tire events, staff say
Summary
Staff outlined programs financed by the solid waste fee — an expanded household hazardous-waste facility, electronic-waste collection with domestic recycling, tire events, and coupons for bulky waste — and tied those services to the fee's revenue model.
Susan explained the solid waste fee supports a suite of disposal and recycling services the county operates or funds. She said the county has doubled the household hazardous-waste facility footprint to serve more customers and improve safety, and that five electronic-waste events this year collected "just under 2,900,000 pounds of electronics." She also described eight tire-collection events yielding more than 300,000 passenger-tire equivalents and a coupon program that has enabled nearly 36,800,000 pounds of material to be properly disposed.
Presenters and commissioners debated whether some programs should be limited to residents or remain open to commercial customers who currently use the events. One commissioner noted businesses also benefit; Susan and others said commercial users frequently attend county events and that limiting them would require revisiting fee assumptions because many programs were financed from the fee revenue pool.
