The State of Ohio requires solid waste districts in Ohio to develop long-range plans to increase recycling and reduce reliance on landfills. The Ohio EPA oversees the 52 solid waste management districts who are tasked with ensuring that Ohioans have opportunities to reduce, reuse, and recycle their waste and that solid waste is managed properly.

Geauga-Trumbull’s Solid Waste Plan does four main things:

• Documents how much waste is produced and recycled in Geauga & Trumbull Counties – where it comes from and where it goes.
• Describes how the Solid Waste District will achieve Ohio’s recycling mandates, which includes recycling 25% of our residential and commercial waste.
• Details where and how the remaining waste will be disposed of for the next fifteen years. Providing long-term disposal capacity helps ensure Ohio does not have a garbage crisis that occurred in other states that ran out of landfill space.
• Spells out what recycling and landfill diversion programs the District will offer to the public, and how we will pay for them. 

This Plan must be projected over 15 years and must be updated, ratified, and re-approved every five (5) years.