GOAL 4:

DALLAS IS A ZERO WASTE COMMUNITY

Targets

DIVERT 35% AND 80% OF ORGANIC WASTE BY 2030 AND 2050, RESPECTIVELY.

DIVERT 60% AND 90% OF PAPER WASTE BY 2030 AND 2050, RESPECTIVELY.

35% AND 45% REDUCTION IN WASTE DIVERTED FROM LANDFILLS IN 2030 AND 2040, RESPECTIVELY.

Q4 Progress

Reported October 2025

Because of good landfill management practices that entail aggressive gas collection and re-sale, the emissions from the waste sector in Dallas are very minimal. However, during the public engagement part of developing the CECAP, there was significant public interest in additional actions within this sector. In FY 24-25, 6 actions from this sector, with 20 milestones will be initiated. Implementation of these milestones will involve collaboration between the following City departments:

Code Compliance
Environmental Quality & Sustainability
Park and Recreation
Procurement Services
Sanitation Services
Arts and Culture

Note: Actions marked as ongoing span multiple fiscal years, meaning efforts will be carried out continuously and therefore will not be marked complete until the end of this fiscal year.

Year Five Work Plan

COMPLETE: 19 Milestones

SW1: Actively promote source reduction, recycling, and composting to the Dallas community.

Implement an Artist Residency program in Dallas recreation centers that promotes CECAP goals and waste reduction.
Sponsor zero waste education courses for multi-family residential customers.
Expand current education efforts to inform residents and business owners of their options to refuse, reduce, reuse, and recycle.

SW3: Improve solid waste, recycling, and brush/bulky waste collection efficiency.

Utilize a grant from the North Central Texas Council of Governments to secure the services of a solid waste engineering firm and conduct a feasibility study for a composting processing system and site location.
Divert brush from the landfill by generating compost and mulch through the Treecycling program.

SW4: Explore potential for electric waste collection trucks.

Continue to monitor technological advancements and viability

SW6: Expand efforts to reduce illegal dumping by implementing recommendations identified in the “Litter and Illegal Dumping Assessment Study.”

Implement the Environmental Clean-Up Fee to address litter and nuisance abatement from public property, street cleaning, and related services.
Continue to facilitate BOPA collection events
Continue Zero Waste direct mail campaigns, such as water bill inserts
Continue to implement Strategic Illegal Dumping Plan
Continue collaboration with Dallas Marshal’s office to issue citations and arrests
Continue marketing campaign to educate public on illegal dumping (how to report, what it is, and measures being taken to counteract it)
Continue same day abatement via illegal dumping abatement team
Maintain illegal dumping hotline
Coordinate community trash off events
Continue to support the Keep Dallas Beautiful affiliation
Provide staff support at Community Trash Off Events

SW8: Continue to capture gas and expand capacity from landfill for reuse and evaluate for city operations.

Expand program as needed to increase methane recovery
Annually evaluate need for gas collection system expansion

GOAL 4: DALLAS IS A ZERO WASTE COMMUNITY

Targets

Code Compliance

Environmental Quality & Sustainability

Park and Recreation

Procurement Services

Sanitation Services

Arts and Culture

Note: Actions marked as ongoing span multiple fiscal years, meaning efforts will be carried out continuously and therefore will not be marked complete until the end of this fiscal year.

Year Five Work Plan

COMPLETE: 19 Milestones

SW1: Actively promote source reduction, recycling, and composting to the Dallas community.

Implement an Artist Residency program in Dallas recreation centers that promotes CECAP goals and waste reduction.

Sponsor zero waste education courses for multi-family residential customers.

Expand current education efforts to inform residents and business owners of their options to refuse, reduce, reuse, and recycle.

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SW3: Improve solid waste, recycling, and brush/bulky waste collection efficiency.

Utilize a grant from the North Central Texas Council of Governments to secure the services of a solid waste engineering firm and conduct a feasibility study for a composting processing system and site location.

Divert brush from the landfill by generating compost and mulch through the Treecycling program.

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SW4: Explore potential for electric waste collection trucks.

Continue to monitor technological advancements and viability

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SW6: Expand efforts to reduce illegal dumping by implementing recommendations identified in the “Litter and Illegal Dumping Assessment Study.”

Implement the Environmental Clean-Up Fee to address litter and nuisance abatement from public property, street cleaning, and related services.

Continue to facilitate BOPA collection events

Continue Zero Waste direct mail campaigns, such as water bill inserts

Continue to implement Strategic Illegal Dumping Plan

Continue collaboration with Dallas Marshal’s office to issue citations and arrests

Continue marketing campaign to educate public on illegal dumping (how to report, what it is, and measures being taken to counteract it)

Continue same day abatement via illegal dumping abatement team

Maintain illegal dumping hotline

Coordinate community trash off events

​Continue to support the Keep Dallas Beautiful affiliation

Provide staff support at Community Trash Off Events

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SW8: Continue to capture gas and expand capacity from landfill for reuse and evaluate for city operations.

Expand program as needed to increase methane recovery

Annually evaluate need for gas collection system expansion

GOAL 4:

DALLAS IS A ZERO WASTE COMMUNITY

Continue to support the Keep Dallas Beautiful affiliation