2013-01-22_PWETC_AgendaPacket - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

RETH INK 6a RECYCLING® B. Measuring Regional Progress on Achieving Solid Waste Management Objectives Solid waste progress will ultimately be benchmarked against the objectives outlined in the 2030 Solid Waste Management Policy Plan, and those objectives will therefore serve as the outcomes by which SWMCB and its member counties will be held accountable. SWMCB will also regularly analyze available solid waste data to produce solid waste reports that compare the Region's current progress to the regional solid waste management objectives in the Policy Plan. It is through this constant analysis that future regulatory, policy and communication priorities will be identified and specific strategies included in the annual workplan to guide programmatic implementation. Instead of attempting to measure and track data across a wide array of solid waste subcategories that ultimately are not the outcomes by which the Region will be assessed, the SWMCB will focus the 2011 Regional Master Plan on the macro objectives that will be the standards that determine regional success. This focus will will prioritize data collection and management efforts and enable the SWMCB and MPCA to focus more attention on the creation of critical data collection and measurement methods that are needed to fully assess future regional solid waste management progress. C. Measurement of County Specific Strategies In order to highlight the regional focus of the 2011 Regional Solid Waste Master Plan and streamline the submission of information to the MPCA, County Specific Initiatives (CSI's) were removed from the Regional Master Plan, and specific county strategies are instead being housed in the SWMCB member counties' individual Master Plans that must be submitted concurrently with the Regional Master Plan. Per the requirements of the SWMCB IPA, counties will continue to collectively review their county- specific strategies on an annual basis at a SWMCB meeting and identify specific tasks and results that each county will attempt to achieve in the year ahead. It is expected that both qualitative and quantitative measures of progress will identify how county strategies are contributing to the achievement of SWMCB's objectives identified in this Regional Master Plan. D. Regional Strategies The SWMCB will: 1. Evaluate and enhance current measurement and reporting tools (i.e. ReTRAC); 2. Support county development of individual performance measures so long as the measures provide data that integrates with other counties and enables the Region to benchmark progress on solid waste objectives; 2011 -2030 Regional Solid Waste Master Plan Approved by the Solid Waste Management Coordinating Board on December 14, 2011 Appendix V Page 30