{"id":171579,"date":"2024-08-08T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wasteadvantagemag.com\/?p=171579"},"modified":"2024-08-07T23:16:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T03:16:35","slug":"palm-beach-county-is-floridas-top-recycling-county-for-the-second-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wasteadvantagemag.com\/palm-beach-county-is-floridas-top-recycling-county-for-the-second-straight-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Beach County is Florida’s Top Recycling County for the Second Straight Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County thanks the residents of the county for helping to make it the state\u2019s top recycler for the second year in a row. In 2023, Palm Beach County achieved an overall 84 percent recycling rate, as calculated by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection(FDEP). That\u2019s a four-point increase from 2022 when the county achieved an FDEP calculated 80 percent recycling rate, exceeding the state\u2019s 75 percent recycling goal.<\/p>\n
Per FDEP calculations, Palm Beach County recycled approximately 3.5M tons of the 4.2M tons of municipal solid waste collected in 2023. This calculation includes both traditional recycling, construction and demolition recycling, vegetation and waste-to-energy recycling credits. \u201cPalm Beach County\u2019s recycling success is possible because of all who recognize the value of recycling and are dedicated to recycling right every day,\u201d said Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County Executive Director Dan Pellowitz. \u201cBecause of county residents recycling right, Palm Beach County is proud to have had a thriving dual-stream recycling program and a robust construction and demolition recycling effort since the late 1980s.\u201d<\/p>\n
Palm Beach County residents, visitors and businesses have many options for recycling right:<\/p>\n
In 2010, the Florida legislature set a 75 percent state recycling goal by the year 2020. See the complete list of 2023 county recycling percentages from the FDEP.<\/a><\/p>\n The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County thanks the residents of the county for helping to make it the state\u2019s top recycler for the second year in a row. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1792,"featured_media":70092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,123,122,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collection-transfer-news","category-government-and-regulations","category-newsletter-headline","category-recycling-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFor more information, visit www.swa.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"