A Greener Fort Worth

• Complete 2017-2037 Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan with all appendices(PDF, 9MB)
• 2017-2037 Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan(PDF, 9MB)
• Appendix A — Glossary of Terms(PDF, 304KB)
• Appendix B — Index of Topics(PDF, 379KB)
• Appendix C — Outreach Efforts(PDF, 7MB)
• Appendix D — Program Evaluation Report(PDF, 2MB)
• Appendix E — Recommendations Report(PDF, 776KB)
• Appendix F — Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan(PDF, 1MB)

The 2017 – 2037 Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan was developed to serve as a roadmap for how waste is to be handled and managed in Cowtown in the next 20 years. The Plan is:

• Comprehensive. It covers the totality of the municipal solid waste, instead of being limited to one of it's sectors.
• Systematic rather than being an atomized approach to solid waste management
• Synergetic, identifying and recommending mutually-helpful initiatives with other city departments and outside agencies that benefit all, and promote the common good. Advancing those potential intra and inter-agency collaborations will bring to fruition the full benefits of the CSWMP to the city.

Fort Worth is growing

Making progress

• Prior to 2003, the city diverted 7 percent of waste.
• In 2013, the city diverted 24 percent. See what kinds of waste are making their way to the landfill.

• Extending the life span of the Southeast Landfill (SELF)
• Creation of a Material Management Program
• Advancing an organic pilot program
• Increasing residential city recycling
• Increasing commercial city recycling
• Decreasing recycling contamination
• Supporting the City’s litter plan

For additional information please refer to the Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan above