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- Expanding the County Resource Recovery Facility’s capacity from 1,200 tons to 1,800 tons per day by May 2009, which will divert approximately 200,000 tons of processable solid waste annually from the County’s Southeast County Landfill. This expansion will also increase the facility’s electricity production to 45 megawatts per day, enough to provide electricity to 35,000 homes.
- Connecting the Resource Recovery Facility to the nearby Falkenburg Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant to provide electricity for running the plant by June 2008, at an annual savings of $380,000 per year to Water Resource Services. The agreement means the plant will not have to buy electricity from TECO, saving this valuable resource.
- Provides a curbside recycling program to all 220,000 residential customers, which diverts approximately 29,000 tons of recyclable materials from the waste stream annually and saves valuable landfill space.
- Converts more than 200,000 tons of vegetative waste into mulch and other beneficial products annually, and provides mulch to residents at yard waste facilities.
- Removes approximately 400 tons per year of potentially harmful material from the waste stream through the County’s Household Chemical Waste Collection; the program is free to residents that receive household garbage collection.
- Hosted a free Green Certification Workshop in 2007 that was attended by over 60 professionals in the public and private sectors.
- The program educated and encouraged the commercial sector on various topics including how to create a “green” and profitable work environment; green building design; environmentally sound management of construction and demolition debris; and the purchase and use of products with recycled content.
- Attendees also received free manuals and samples funded through a grant that the department received for the program.
- Sells many materials that are diverted from the waste stream and can be recycled to various industries, such as metal, shredded tires for ground cover, re-mixed high-quality paint and mulch.
- Funds anti-litter and anti-dumping education campaigns, inspections and clean-ups continuously throughout the County.
- Provides annual grant to Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful to assist this non-profit organization in its clean-up and education programs.
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