WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Seattle's Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan "On the Path to Sustainability" in August 1998, Resolution 29805; and

WHEREAS, the City Council adopted the 2004 Comprehensive Solid Waste Plan Amendment to the 1998 Plan "On the Path to Sustainability" in March 2005, Resolution 30750; and

WHEREAS, Resolution 30990 reaffirmed the goal in the 2004 Comprehensive Solid Waste Plan Amendment to recycle 60 percent of the City's municipal solid waste, and established the year 2012 to achieve the 60 percent goal, and established an additional goal to achieve 70 percent recycling of municipal solid waste by the year 2025; and

WHEREAS, recycling achievement since the adoption of Resolution 30990 has been slower than expected, and analysis done for the 2011 revision showed that 60 percent recycling of municipal solid waste is achievable in the year 2015, and that 70 percent recycling of municipal solid waste is achievable by the year 2022; and

WHEREAS, the State of Washington requires that local governments develop comprehensive solid waste management plans and that they be updated every five years; and

WHEREAS, the Washington State Department of Ecology has determined a Plan Revision is required; and

WHEREAS, Seattle has developed a Plan Revision, which has included opportunities for public input on its crucial program elements; and

WHEREAS, the City's Solid Waste Advisory Committee participated in the development of the Plan Revision; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE, THE MAYOR CONCURRING, THAT:

Section 1. Seattle's Solid Waste Plan 2011 Revision: Picking Up The Pace Toward Zero Waste, attached hereto as Attachment 1, is hereby adopted as the solid waste management plan for the City of Seattle to provide long-term planning direction and guide solid waste program development over the next five years.

Section 2. Goals. The City establishes the following recycling goals recommended in Seattle's Solid Waste Plan 2011 Revision. These goals replace the recycling goals established by Subsection 1.A of Resolution 30990.

A. The City will recycle 60 percent of the municipal solid waste produced within the city by 2015, and 70 percent of the municipal solid waste produced within the city by 2022.

B. The City will recycle 70 percent of the construction and demolition waste produced within the city by the year 2020.

Adopted by the City Council the ____ day of ____________________, 2013, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its adoption this________ day

of ______________________, 2013.

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President ___________of the City Council

THE MAYOR CONCURRING:

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Michael McGinn, Mayor

Filed by me this ____ day of ________________________, 2013.

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Monica Martinez Simmons, City Clerk

(Seal)

Victoria Beaumont SPU Solid Waste Plan RES December 11, 2012 Version #4

Attachment 1: Seattle's Solid Waste Plan 2011 Revision: Picking Up The Pace Toward Zero Waste