Description
King County recognizes that the most effective strategies for reducing consumption, minimizing waste, and increasing reuse are often influenced or controlled by others. King County will collaborate with cities and other partners through the Metropolitan Solid Waste Management and the Solid Waste Management advisory councils on policies, projects, and programs dedicated to consumption reduction, waste prevention and reuse, extended producer responsibility, recycling, composting, and beneficial use initiatives. This work will leverage and empower external organizations and committees such as the Re+ Community Panel, CBOs, Zero Waste Washington, Ecology, and others to implement initiatives aimed at reducing consumption and waste. King County will also collaborate more broadly to reduce waste, for example, through the U.S. Plastics Pact (USPP).