{"id":169602,"date":"2023-08-01T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T01:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=169602"},"modified":"2023-08-01T21:28:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T01:28:09","slug":"regional-waste-management-developing-new-10-year-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/regional-waste-management-developing-new-10-year-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional waste management developing new 10-year plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comox Strathcona Waste Management (CSWM) is in the midst of developing a new 10 year plan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The second and current step in that development is community outreach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Educator for CSWM Lindsay Eason was on the ground on July 23 at the Cortes Waste Management Center to speak with locals about the new framework.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eason noted that the last 10 year plan included a major upgrade to the Cumberland landfill. The community educator explained how the current system works.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAll waste is mandated to now come to the Cumberland Landfill where we have our properly-engineered, wonderful landfill that is happening there. So this is a transfer station here on Cortes,\u201d Eason said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eason explains what the primary focus is of the new 10 year plan: zero waste.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere's a big focus right now on circular economy and zero waste. Having facilities in place that could manage a lot of reuse, repurpose, repair,\u201d Eason added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community members may reach out to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/engagecomoxvalley.ca\/swmp\/step-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CSWM team by completing a survey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Sept. 25. The new 10-year plan will be refined based on the community\u2019s input and the final draft will be ready next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>To hear more about the new waste management plan, listen to the CKTZ News Update below:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comox Strathcona Waste Management (CSWM) is in the midst of developing a new 10 year plan. The second and current step in that development is community outreach. Community Educator for CSWM Lindsay Eason was on the ground on July 23 at the Cortes Waste Management Center to speak with locals about the new framework. Eason&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":169607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[221,222,225],"tags":[16929,13980,28696,28695,7715,28698,7126,1508,28697],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169602"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170577,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169602\/revisions\/170577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169602"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=169602"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=169602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}