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Hennepin Co. leaders seek public input on Zero Waste Plan during March

Online surveys and a meeting next week allow residents, business owners to discuss county's plan to eliminate and reduce waste.

Hennepin County leaders seek public input during March on the new Zero Waste Plan, which aims to reduce waste by as much as 90 percent. The public can fill out online surveys or attend an online meeting next week.
Hennepin County leaders seek public input during March on the new Zero Waste Plan, which aims to reduce waste by as much as 90 percent. The public can fill out online surveys or attend an online meeting next week.
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Hennepin County leaders have a broad-reaching and perhaps ambitious plan to reduce and eliminate much of the waste in the county, and they want to hear your thoughts about it.

The county’s Environment and Energy office presented its Zero Waste Plan to the county board and it calls for a possible reduction in waste in the county by as much as 90 percent.


“That doesn’t mean you won’t have things to discard,” said Strategic Initiatives Manager Angie Timmons. “It just means that we really need to change the system so that the things we use are easily recyclable or compostable and they’re going back into a cycle to be used again.”

Timmons and her staff are taking public input with an online survey or at an online meeting on Thursday, March 9. She said it’s all an effort to reach as many people with as many answers to their questions as possible.

“Some residents are more toward the zero-waste lifestyle and then others–recycling is still kind of new or complicated to them. So, everyone is on a different spectrum there, and we want to make sure everyone sees themself in this plan.”

Online surveys and a meeting next week allow residents, business owners to discuss county's plan to eliminate and reduce waste.