Recycling Today for Tomorrow can mean sound environmental management and smart savings. Smart Businesses understand when less is hauled to the landfill, they help save taxpayer dollars, help save landfill space, and many times, better the bottom line. Check out the SWACO programs tailored just for businesses.
SWACO Mission Statement:
Manage the District municipal solid waste stream to achieve
environmentally responsible and cost-effective disposal, treat solid
waste as a resource capable of yielding recovered materials and energy,
reduce reliance on landfilling, and plan future disposal capacity for
the District.
SWACO Guiding Principles:
- Focus on the use of technically viable and economically sound technologies.
- Utilize proven business principles in the management of District programs and projects.
- Promote public awareness and knowledge concerning effective and efficient
- management of the District municipal solid waste stream.
- Assure that all initiatives involving outside private or public sector partners
- identify and incorporate mutually beneficial outcomes.
- Support waste reduction, recycling, and reuse programs and technologies that
- will be both environmentally and economically sustainable.