Program Descriptions
Food Waste Organics Recycling
This program is designed to promote recycling of food scraps as part of the County's overall effort to increase recycling, and reduce the amount of food waste within the County. The program includes initiatives to recycle food scraps and other acceptable organic materials, generated by the single-family residential, multi-family residential,...
Read More Administration and Support
This program supports the Department's operations, programs, and mission through professional services such as: budget and financial management, program evaluation analysis, contract management, and administrative support. This also includes managing the enterprise fund in a financially sound manner; implementing solid waste policy initiatives; performing financial analysis, revenue forecasting, and solid...
Read More Commercial Recycling
This program provides for mandatory commercial sector recycling and waste reduction for all businesses, as well as the review of recycling and waste reduction plans and annual reports from all large and medium-sized businesses, as well as targeted small businesses. Through this program, technical support, assistance, education, outreach, and training...
Program Performance Measures | Actual FY16 | Actual FY17 | Estimated FY18 | Target FY19 | Target FY20 |
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Non-residential recycling (tonnages) | 315,697 | 321,603 | 328,681 | 335,885 | 352,549 |
Number of site visits to provide recycling assistance to businesses 1 | 9,812 | 8,079 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
Read More Enforcement
Enforcement provided by the Department of Housing and Community Affairs under this program consists of six related components. Staff respond to resident complaints dealing with: storage and removal of solid waste; illegal solid waste dumping activities in the County; storage of unregistered vehicles on private property throughout the County; storage...
Read More Dickerson Compost Facility
This program includes all processing, transporting, composting, and marketing of yard trim received by the County, including leaves received from the County's Leaf Vacuuming Program. Processing includes grinding brush to produce mulch at the Transfer Station. Transportation is included for hauling leaves and grass from the Transfer Station, located in...
Read More Dickerson Master Plan Implementation
This program provides for the implementation of the Dickerson Solid Waste Facilities Master Plan. This plan identifies the environmental, community, and operational effects of solid waste facilities in the Dickerson area (the RRF, the Site 2 Landfill, and the Compost Facility) and outlines policies and actions to mitigate those...
Read More Gude Landfill
The purpose of this program is to monitor air and water quality around the landfill, maintain stormwater management and erosion control structures, maintain site roads, and manage the landfill gas through collection and flaring systems. In addition, it encompasses all operational functions necessary to maintain the Gude Landfill, which closed...
Read More Household & Small Quantity Hazardous Waste Management
This program funds a contractor to receive, sort, pack, ship, and properly dispose of household hazardous waste such as flammable products, insecticides, mercury, and reactive and corrosive chemicals. These products are brought in by residents and processed at State and Federally-approved hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities. This program...
Read More Multi-Family Recycling
This program provides for mandatory recycling and waste reduction for multi-family properties. Program efforts include technical support, assistance, education, outreach and training about waste reduction, reuse, recycling and buying recycled products, in addition to the review and monitoring of waste reduction and recycling plans and annual reports. This program also...
Program Performance Measures | Actual FY16 | Actual FY17 | Estimated FY18 | Target FY19 | Target FY20 |
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Multi-family recycling (tonnages) | 27,212 | 29,364 | 30,615 | 31,241 | 32,258 |
Read More Oaks Landfill
This program maintains the closed Oaks Landfill in an environmentally sound and cost-effective manner in accordance with applicable State and Federal regulations. Mandated duties under this program include maintaining monitoring wells for landfill gas and water quality around the landfill; managing landfill gas through collection, flaring, and gas-to-energy systems;...
Read More Out Of County Refuse Disposal
This program provides for the rail shipment of ash residue that is designated for recycling or disposal from the Resource Recovery Facility (RRF) to Fulton Rail Yard near Richmond, Virginia, where it is unloaded and transported by truck to the Old Dominion Landfill, a contracted landfill where the ash is...
Read More Recycling Outreach And Education
This program provides for broadly educating everyone living, visiting and working in the County about waste reduction, reuse, recycling, buying recycled products, backyard and on-site composting, and grasscycling, and the need to comply with applicable County laws. Public education is an important effort which supports solid waste program goals and...
Program Performance Measures | Actual FY16 | Actual FY17 | Estimated FY18 | Target FY19 | Target FY20 |
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Percent of total municipal solid waste recycled | 60% | 61% | 61% | 61% | 63% |
Total recycling (tonnage) | 598,782 | 612,515 | 625,455 | 637,473 | 659,677 |
Single-family recycling (tonnages) | 255,873 | 261,547 | 266,158 | 270,347 | 274,871 |
Read More Satellite Sites
This program provides for the operation of a satellite drop-off site at the Poolesville Highway Services Depot. Residents can bring bulky materials to this site. The site, which operates only on weekends, provides drop-off for trash items as a convenience to County residents and reduces the incidence of roadside dumping....
Read More Transfer Station
The purpose of this program is to provide a receiving, processing, and shipping facility for municipal solid waste generated within the County. In addition to regular trash, waste that is handled or recycled includes scrap metal, oil and anti-freeze, textiles, car batteries, and construction material. County staff operates...
Program Performance Measures | Actual FY16 | Actual FY17 | Estimated FY18 | Target FY19 | Target FY20 |
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Number of customers dropping off household hazardous waste at the Transfer Station | 92,052 | 108,540 | 110,740 | 112,740 | 114,740 |
Read More Yard Trim Reduction
The purpose of this program is to provide education and training to residents, multi-family properties, and businesses to reduce the amount of yard trim materials (grass, leaves, and brush) generated and also to manage what is generated on-site through both grasscycling and backyard or on-site composting, thus reducing the amount...
Read More Recycling Center
This program provides for the separation, processing, and marketing of recyclable materials (glass, metal, and plastic). The Recycling Center also serves as a transfer point for shipping residential mixed paper for processing. The Recycling Center receives recyclable material collected under the County curbside collection program, as well as some materials...
Read More Residential Collection
This program provides for securing, administering, monitoring, and enforcing Countywide contracts with private collectors for collection of residential refuse and recyclables, and responding to the service needs of residents. Staff processes service requests from MC311 to ensure timely fulfillment by collection contractors. This program also provides for enforcement of the...
Program Performance Measures | Actual FY16 | Actual FY17 | Estimated FY18 | Target FY19 | Target FY20 |
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Average number of recycling collections missed per week, not picked up within 24 hours | 5.8 | 62.5 | 19.8 | 5.0 | 5.0 |
Average number of refuse collections missed per week, not picked up within 24 hours | 10.3 | 17.4 | 15.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
Read More Resource Recovery Facility & Related Waste Transfer
This program provides for the operation of the Montgomery County Resource Recovery Facility (RRF). The RRF serves as the primary disposal facility for non-recycled waste generated in the County. Renewable energy in the form of electricity is generated by the combustion of municipal solid waste and is sold into the...
Program Performance Measures | Actual FY16 | Actual FY17 | Estimated FY18 | Target FY19 | Target FY20 |
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Percent of total municipal solid waste sent to landfill 1 | 10.2% | 17.3% | 11.3% | 11.3% | 12.6% |
Read More Site 2
This program provides for the management of properties acquired for a potential future landfill. All properties are leased and/or used by private residents. Management activities include the inspection, evaluation, and maintenance of leased agricultural land, single-family dwellings, and agricultural buildings. Activities are coordinated with the Department of...
Read More Support for Recycling Volunteers
The mission of this program is to recruit and retain recycling volunteers to augment available staff resources to educate the general public and thereby improve participation in waste reduction, reuse, recycling, and buying recycled programs. This resident-to-resident and peer-to-peer contact is very effective in motivating people living, visiting, and working...
Read More Waste System Planning
This program supports the planning and development of solid waste programs in accordance with the mandates of the County's Ten Year Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan. This may include evaluating existing source reduction, recycling, composting, collection, and disposal programs and policies with the intent of achieving solid waste program...
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