Agenda - Council - 01/26/1982 - Laserfiche WebLink

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I I I The County presently generates about 150,000 tons of solid waste annually, which represents the fourth largest quantity of the seven metropolitan counties. The County predicts waste quantities to increase about 72 percent over the next 20 years. Currently, the County's waste is disposed of primarily at four landfills, all of which are located in the County. It is estimated that the capacity of the landfills will be exhausted by 1982. Two-thirds of the solid waste deposited at these landfills is not generated in Anoka County, but instead, is'hauled in'~PrimarilY from Hennepin and Ramsey Counties. I The Plan contains waste management objectives, and policies to carry out the objectives. Policies are contained in the Plan '- i respecting land disposal, solid waste abatement, financing, planning/coordination, tree waste management and hazardous waste management. The Plan also identifies implementation activities that tie, for the most part, with the various policy areas. I The Plan is weakest in its discussion of implementation programs and activities that the County could undertake to implement ~-i~-~· recycling, resource, recovery and the land disposal facilities ~'~ that will be ,necessary.' 'Such programs and activities will also be necessary. Such programs and activities will also be more fully developed per the requirements of the WMA. Specific I and and landfill facilities will be recycling recovery projects implemented by the County under the WMA. The policies developed in the Plan are consistent with the policies of the Council with the exception of Policy I as stated under the heading of "General Objectives and Policies." This I policy states that: "Anoka County considers solid waste processing as having the greatest benefit to improved solid waste management, followed I in order of preference by source separation and recycling, final disposal, and wastes reduction." This is inconsistent with Council policy which states reduction should occur first, foal. owed.in order of preferences by source separation, waste processing-and fina~ land disposat~'~Policy~l~ however, is partially offset by a number of policies contained in I the Plan that waste reduction and'indicate'~the encourage County's support of this waste ma'n.a, gement alternative. ' ..... - ...... I The policies in the Plan will have to be more fully developed under i~he requirements of the ~ and tied to specific implementation programs and projects. The WMA requires the []~ County master plans to be amended in 1983. It is recom~nended that the section of the solid waste element respecting tree waste, reference and tie in the County's adopted I Tree Waste Management Plan.