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Best Practice Action 22.1 <br />GreenStep Gty nest ract,ces: _imronrner tal Management <br />Sustainable Consumption and Waste No. 22 <br />Increase waste prevention, reuse and recycling, moving to a lower -consumption, more <br />cyclical, biological approach to materials management. <br />Best Practice Action 1 <br />Improve city operations and procurement to prevent and reuse, recycle and <br />compost waste from all public facilities (including libraries, parks, schools, <br />municipal health care facilities), and minimize use of toxics and generation of <br />hazardous waste. <br />Implementation Tools Star -level Examples — <br />* Measure/audit waste generated; adopt goals for reducing the generation <br />of overall solid waste; goals for diverting a percentage of overall solid <br />waste into recycling or organics collection; goals for specific waste <br />streams such as public works waste, disposable cafeteria ware, waste <br />from parks. Note that some cities entered, before 2018, completion of this <br />action under BPA 22.2 <br />** Describe actions taken, such as refurbishing office equipment, reusing <br />building materials, increasing e-commerce, getting off junk mail lists, <br />collecting organic material and beverage containers from parks. <br />*** Report measures that show goals were met by the reduced amount of <br />Greenstep Advisor <br />'Aelissa Wenzel, Built <br />Environment Sustainability <br />Administrator, Minnesota <br />7,ollution Control Agency, <br />651/757- <br />2251, melissa.wenzel@state.mn.us, <br />waste generated, the increased amount of waste diverted into recycling <br />and organics collection. Page 27 of 71 <br />