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Welcome to SWACO’s Communities
  • Want to improve your community’s recycling rate?
  • Has your community’s recycling rate gone down or
    at a standstill?
If so, you can do something about that. SWACO stands ready with its Smart Communities program to assist communities in its district with new, creative and effective ways to increase recycling.

Smart Communities provides communities free of charge with the technical assistance and resources to save money and increase curbside recycling rates.

Smart Communities is tailored to assist your community and work with the people you choose.   

You set the tone of the meeting(s). You set the pace. We can meet as often or as little as you like.      

Keep the landfill, the highest point in Franklin County, from getting any higher! REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE!
SWACO Communities:


Bexley
Columbus
Dublin
Gahanna
Grandview Heights
Grove City
Hilliard
Reynoldsburg
Upper Arlington
Westerville
Whitehall
Worthington    
     
Brice
Canal Winchester
Groveport
Harrisburg
Lockbourne
Marble Cliff
Minerva Park
New Albany
Obetz
Riverlea
Urbancrest
Valleyview
                      
Blendon
Brown
Clinton
Franklin
Hamilton
Jackson
Jefferson
Madison
Mifflin
Norwich
Perry
Plain
Pleasant
Prairie
Sharon
Truro
Washington





The emission of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide causes global warming. Recycling decreases these emissions because manufacturing with recycled materials consumes less energy, and when less fuels such as oil, gas and coal are burned to produce energy, less greenhouse gas is produced.

By reducing their waste streams, Smart Communities reduced greenhouse gas emissions equivalently generated by:

The operation of 40,494 cars or
The burning of 23,409,037 gallons of gasoline or
The burning of 514,415 barrels of oil or
The burning of electricity for 20,118 households in one year

Smart Communities also preserved 1,547 acres of trees and diverted 74,361 tons of recyclable materials from our landfill!

*(Figures taken from SWACO’s ReTrac Online Municipal Solid Waste Data Management Tool for the years, 2005 to 2008)

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
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.