SWACO stands ready with its Smart Community program to help villages, townships and cities improve waste diversion rates. We are ready to provide you with the resources that can save money, increase recycling and boost community pride.

When we recycle and reduce waste, we extend the life of the Franklin County Landfill as well as many other valuable natural resources.

That is Smart!

SWACO is proud to announce its Smart Communities:

Bexley
Dublin
Gahanna
Reynoldsburg
Upper Arlington
Whitehall
Westerville

By recycling and waste reduction practices, Smart Communities saved these Natural Resources. *

• 4100 Tons of Iron Ore
• 2560 Tons of Limestone and Coal
• 402,000,000 BTUs of Energy
• 310,000 Trees

* Prevented over 22 Tons of Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide Emissions from being released into our air

* (Figures taken from The National Recycling Coalition’s Benefits Calculator)

To find out more about this Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio program, click the link to open and or print a copy of the Smart Community Brochure.

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.