The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio
The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO) serves Franklin County and neighboring areas with solutions for solid waste.
SWACO mission:
To 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.