The Wasatch Integrated Waste Management District tasked GBB, a long-time trusted advisor, with preparing a new Solid Waste Management Plan. The assignment included supporting the District in engaging citizens in a high-level outreach effort; taking a strategic view of solid waste management for the next several years; researching, collecting, analyzing, and drawing upon salient information from key District documents; developing and modeling alternatives and scenarios; and developing a new updated enhanced Plan.

This plan, which is available on the district’s website (www.wasatchintegrated.org/wiwmd-integrated-waste-management-plan), presents the existing system, provides guidance, and sets forth goals of increasing the diversion of Wasatch’s material streams from its landfill, improving its solid waste infrastructure, expanding disposal alternatives, and evaluating current services and opportunities to ensure that all residents have safe, efficient, and effective access to waste collection and/or drop-off opportunities during the Plan time period of 2023-2032, and beyond. While this is a ten-year plan, the projections covered in the analysis project twenty years into the future, to account for when the landfill will reach its full capacity.