Solid Waste Integrated
Resources Plan
Draft Program
Environmental Impact Report
All of us together can make
Agenda
1. Background
2. Solid Waste Integrated Resources Plan (SWIRP)
3. Draft Program Environmental Impact Report
(Draft PEIR)
4. Next Steps
The Solid Waste Integrated Resources
Plan (SWIRP) is a long-range master plan
that includes Policies, Programs and
Facilities to achieve the City’s goal of 90
percent diversion by 2025
SWIRP Schedule
2007 – 2008
Tasks:
Public
Outreach &
Stakeholder
Guiding
Principles
2009 – 2011
2011-2013
2012 – 2014
Tasks:
Tasks:
Tasks:
Policy,
Environmental Financial Plan &
Program &
Impact Report Implementation
Facility Plan
Strategy
Events:
Regional
Workshops
Citywide
Conferences
Events:
Regional
Workshops
Citywide
Conference
Events:
Public
hearings on
Draft PEIR
Events:
Regional
Workshops
Citywide
Conference
Stakeholder Involvement
SWIRP is a Stakeholder-driven Planning Process
 42 regional workshops and 3 citywide
conferences during Phase 1
 21 regional workshops and 1 citywide conference
during Phase 2
 109 key constituent interviews
 27 house meetings
 75 business meetings
Stakeholder Guiding Principles
1. Education to decrease
consumption
2. City leadership as a
model for zero waste
practices
3. Education to increase
recycling
4. City leadership to
increase recycling
5. Manufacturer
responsibility
6. Consumer responsibility
7. Convenience
8. Incentives
9. New, safe, technology
10. Protect public health
and the environment
11. Equity
12. Economic efficiency
SWIRP Master Plan Elements
1. Expansion of existing residential and commercial
programs
2. Implementation of new downstream policies and
programs
3. Implementation of mandatory participation programs
4. Adoption of upstream policies
5. Development of processing facilities
6. Disposal of remaining residual waste at local or
remote landfills
Expansion of Existing Programs
To further increase solid waste management and
landfill diversion
Proposed Sample Programs:
• Expand recycling for multi-family buildings
• LAUSD blue-bin recycling program
• Restaurant food scrap recycling program
Leader Among Big Cities in the U.S.
Source for City of Los Angeles: Zero Waste Progress Report, March 2013
Source for other cities: Waste & Recycling News, Municipal Recycling Survey 2011,
February 21, 2011
Downstream Policies and Programs
Address collection, processing, diversion, and
disposal of materials after they are generated
Proposed Sample Programs:
• Recycling ambassadors
• Bulky item reuse and recycling
• Food scrap recycling program
Mandatory Participation Programs
Motivate all waste generators to separate materials
and place them in the appropriate blue bin, green
bin, or other appropriate collection bins on a
regular basis
Proposed Sample Programs:
• Mandatory recycling separation
• Mandatory organics separation
• Increase diversion at construction/demolition
facilities
Upstream Policies
Minimize the amount of waste prior to the point of
generation
Proposed Sample Policies:
• Advocate for legislation to make businesses
responsible for their products and packaging
• Producer responsibility for toxics and difficult
to recycle material
• Plastic bag ban/$0.10 fee on paper bags
• Blue Dot/Green Dot Program
Processing Facilities
Development of future facilities to meet the City’s
recycling and solid waste infrastructure needs through
2030
SWIRP does not determine where these facilities would
be located, rather, it identifies the potential number of
facilities that would be needed
Facility Types
Blue and Green Bin Processing Facilities
•
•
•
Clean Material Recycling Facilities (MRFs)
Composting and/or Anaerobic Digestion
Resource Recovery Centers
Black Bin Processing Facilities
•
•
•
•
Alternative Technology – Mixed Material Processing
Alternative Technology – Advanced Thermal Recycling
Alternative Technology – Biological
Alternative Technology – Thermal
Clean Materials Recovery Facility (MRFs)
Blue Bin Stream
Tons per day
Revenue per ton
50-600
$10-30
Acres required
5
Phoenix North Transfer Station
and Material Recovery Facility
Curbside Processing
Tonnage, cost, and acreage estimates from SWIRP Facility Plan, October 2013
Composting - Large Scale and Small Scale
Green Bin Stream
Tons per day
100-1,000
Cost per ton
$40-60
Acres required 15-60
Z-Best Composting Facility, Gilroy
Griffith Park Composting Facility
Tonnage, cost, and acreage estimates from SWIRP Facility Plan, October 2013
Resource Recovery Center
Blue Bin Stream
Tons per day
1-10
Cost per ton
$100
Acres required
2
Monterey Regional Waste
Management District
Tonnage, cost, and acreage estimates from SWIRP Facility Plan, October 2013
Alternative Technology –
Mixed Material Processing (Black Bin Stream)
Tons per day
200-400
Cost per ton
$40-60
Acres required
5-7
Rainbow Disposal, Huntington Beach
Mixed Material Processing
Tonnage, cost, and acreage estimates from SWIRP Facility Plan, October 2013
Alternative Technology –
Advanced Thermal Recycling (Black Bin Stream)
Tons per day
500-2,000
Cost per ton
$120-200
Acres required 5-15
TREA Breisgau Advanced Thermal Recycling Freiberg, Germany
Müllverwertung Rugenberger Damm
Advanced Thermal Recycling Facility Hamburg, Germany
Tonnage, cost, and acreage estimates from SWIRP Facility Plan, October 2013
Alternative Technology - Biological
(Anaerobic Digestion) - Black Bin Stream
Tons per day
200-500
Cost per ton
$100-130
Acres required 5-10
Dranco, Brecht, Belgium
Valorga Process, Barcelona, Spain
Tonnage, cost, and acreage estimates from SWIRP Facility Plan, October 2013
Alternative Technology – Thermal
(Gasification/Pyrolysis/Plasma Arc) – Black Bin Stream
Tons per day
500
Cost per ton
$120-250
Acres required 7
JFE Thermoselect - Chiba, Japan
Plasco Conversion System - Ottawa, Canada
Tonnage, cost, and acreage estimates from SWIRP Facility Plan, October 2013
Facility Needs
Full implementation of the SWIRP policies and programs
would require the permitting, construction, and operation
of the following additional blue, green, and black bin
facilities:
•
•
•
•
One large-scale composting facility or six smallscale composting facilities
Three clean material recovery facilities
One resource recovery center
Five alternative technology facilities
Disposal of Remaining Residual Waste
After implementing various policies, programs, and
constructing needed facilities to achieve the goals of
SWIRP, the residual waste will need to be transported and
disposed at landfills
Options include:
• Local Landfill, Truck Haul
• Remote Landfills, Truck Haul
• Remote Landfill, Rail Haul
Policy, Program, and Facility Phasing1
1Phasing
assumed may not reflect actual implementation and/or roll-out of specific policies, programs and/or facilities.
2Facilities
may be implemented by either the public or private sector, or by joint public-private partnerships, and may also include expansions to
existing facilities.
3Statewide
mandatory commercial recycling for commercial customers generating four cubic yards or greater of solid waste per week was
implemented in July 2012. Mandatory recycling and composting for all generators will be implemented locally by 2020.
Environmental Review Process
Development of Program Environmental Impact
Report (PEIR) pursuant to the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA)
• Circulated Notice of Preparation
• Held Scoping Meeting
• Prepared Technical Studies and Draft PEIR
• Circulate Draft PEIR for review (45 days)
• Prepare response to public comments
• Produce Final PEIR
• SWIRP Plan and PEIR considered at City Council
hearing
Purpose of Environmental Review
• Disclose potential impacts of a project
• Inform decision-makers and the public
• Identify mitigation measures to reduce impacts
About Program EIRs
• Prepared for a series of actions that can be
characterized as one large project
• Analysis will be programmatic in nature
• Additional CEQA analysis required
Potentially Significant, Mitigable Impacts
•
•
•
•
•
•
Aesthetics
Agricultural Resources
Biological Resources
Cultural Resources
Geology and Soils
Hazards and Hazardous
Materials
• Hydrology and Water
Quality
•
•
•
•
•
Land Use and Planning
Mineral Resources
Noise
Population and Housing
Public Services and
Utilities
• Recreation
Implementation of proposed mitigation measures in the PEIR would
reduce the potential significant impacts associated with each
environmental issue area to a level that is less than significant.
Potentially Significant, Unmitigable Impacts
• Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions
(Cumulative)
• Transportation and Traffic
Implementation of proposed mitigation measures will reduce the
potential impact to these resources to the extent feasible; however, the
potential impact will remain significant and unmitigated at this program
level of environmental review and pending more detailed site-specific
analysis at the project level of environmental review. If the City chooses
to approve the SWIRP project, it must adopt a “Statement of Overriding
Considerations” pursuant to Sections 15093 and 15126(b) of the CEQA
Guidelines.
SWIRP Draft PEIR Alternatives
• Alternative 1 No Project/Landfill Alternative
• Alternative 2 Expansion of Existing Policies and Programs - No
New Policies or Programs
• Alternative 3 Expansion of Existing Policies and Programs plus
New Downstream Policies and Programs
• Alternative 4 New Policies and Programs plus Implementation
of Mandatory Participation Policies and Programs
• Alternative 5 New Policies and Programs plus Implementation
of Upstream Policies and Programs
None of the alternatives considered are environmentally superior to the
proposed project because they do not meet all the project goals and
objectives.
Next Steps
• Circulate Draft PEIR for 45-day public review
− Opportunity for public comment
− Comments due December 20th, 2013
• Prepare Final PEIR and Response to Comments
− January-February 2014
• Council Hearing
− Spring 2014
− Opportunity for public comment
Lead Agency Contact
Ms. Reina Pereira, P.E.
City of Los Angeles
Department of Public Works, Bureau of Sanitation
Public Works Building (PWB) MS 521
1149 South Broadway, 5th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Phone: (213) 458-3296
Reina.Pereira@lacity.org
www.zerowaste.lacity.org