What are Berkeley’s zero waste goals?
Berkeley has a longstanding commitment to reducing and ultimately eliminating/diverting the waste that goes to landfills. We have one of the first municipal recycling programs in the nation, and in 2007, the City Council adopted a Zero Waste Policy that strives to reach 75% diversion by 2010 and 100% diversion by 2020. Our current diversion rate is 59%. The City’s services are designed to achieve this goal.
