A Greener Fort Worth

With the approval of the 2017 – 2037 Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan (CSWMP), the City of Fort Worth has undertaken one of it's largest green initiatives to-date, setting our community on a 20-year journey towards making Fort Worth a greener, and increasingly better place to live.

View the 2017 – 2037 Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan

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.

Just the facts

Fort Worth is growing

It’s grown by 50 percent over the last 20 years.
Residential waste only comprises about one third of all of the waste generated within the city.
Industrial, commercial and institutional waste comprises the remaining two-thirds.

Public Outreach

The city has conducted public outreach to collect information about Fort Worth residents interest in solid waste and other environmental issues.

View the summary(PDF, 792KB)

Making progress

"The city's short-term goal is to divert 40 percent of all the waste away from the landfill through recycling and other programs by 2023"

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 landfil l.

Action Items

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

Updates

Stay in the loop on the city's Comprehensive Solid Waste Plan.

Presentations

Comprehensive Solid Waste Plan kickoff presentation (Jan. 8, 2013).
Update on Comprehensive Solid Waste Plan (Feb. 5, 2015)
Presentation to City Council (Aug. 2 2016)
Comprehensive Solid Waste Plan Signed Resolution(PDF, 1MB) (Sept. 12, 2017).

Resources

Re-thinking Waste Fact Sheet(PDF, 2MB)

Questions?
Email swplan@fortworthtexas.gov.