Request for Committee Action
A briefing memo explaining the purpose, background, and impact of the requested action.
Solid waste management planning and considerations from Hennepin County (RCA-2024-00948)
ORIGINATING DEPARTMENT
To Committee(s)
| # | Committee Name | Meeting Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Climate & Infrastructure Committee | August 22, 2024 |
Action Item(s)
| # | File Type | Subcategory | Item Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Receive & File | Presentation | Receiving and filing a presentation from Hennepin County representatives on the plan to reinvent Hennepin County's solid waste system. |
Background Analysis
Hennepin County is seeking alignment from cities to accelerate a zero-waste and clean energy future to help the county meet its climate action goals and to ensure the timeline for closure and repurposing of HERC between 2028 and 2040. To accomplish this, the county developed a Plan to Reinvent the Solid Waste System that outlines the zero-waste policies, programming, and infrastructure needed to accelerate zero waste.
The Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (located in downtown Minneapolis, 505 N 6th Ave) is a mass-burn facility that processes trash to avoid landfilling and recover resources from the trash stream, and is one part of the County's waste management system.
Hennepin County staff published a report in September 2023 to describe the operational, legal and legislative, financial, and environmental conditions that must be met to accelerate and repurpose the HERC. According to the report, about 75% of the trash delivered to the HERC comes from Minneapolis residents and businesses, and accounts for the majority of all Minneapolis solid waste, both residential and commercial. This presentation will complement the City's Solid Waste & Recycling division's update on zero waste programming since the adoption of the 2017 Zero Waste Plan and the 2023 Climate Equity Plan.
FISCAL NOTE
- No fiscal impact anticipated