Welcome to SWACO’s Smart Communities

Want to improve your community’s recycling rate?

Has your community’s recycling rate gone down or
at a standstill?

If so, you can do something about that. SWACO stands ready with its Smart Communities program to assist communities in its district with new, creative and effective ways to increase recycling.

Smart Communities provides communities free of charge with the technical assistance and resources to save money and increase curbside recycling rates.

Smart Communities is tailored to assist your community and work with the people you choose.   

You set the tone of the meeting(s).  You set the pace. 
We can meet as often or as little as you like.      

Keep the landfill, the highest point in
Franklin County, from getting any higher!



SWACO is proud to announce its Smart Communities:
Bexley
Dublin
Gahanna
Grandview
Hilliard
Marble Cliff
Minerva Park
Reynoldsburg
Upper Arlington
Westerville
Whitehall
Worthingto

By recycling and waste reduction practices, Smart Communities saved these Natural Resources. *

By reducing their waste streams, Smart Communities reduced greenhouse gas emissions equivalently generated by:

• The operation of 11,387 cars or
• The burning of 994,555,000 gallons of gasoline or
• The burning of 122,391 barrels of oil or
• The burning of electricity for 6,750 households in one year

Smart Communities also preserved 427 acres of trees

*(Figures taken from SWACO’s ReTrac Online MSW Data Management Tool for the year, 2007)

To find out more about this Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio program, click the link to open and or print a copy of the Smart Community Brochure.

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SWACO Mission Statement:
Manage the District municipal solid waste stream to achieve environmentally responsible and cost-effective disposal, treat solid waste as a resource capable of yielding recovered materials and energy, reduce reliance on landfilling, and plan future disposal capacity for the District.

SWACO Guiding Principles:

• Focus on the use of technically viable and economically sound technologies.
• Utilize proven business principles in the management of District programs and projects.
• Promote public awareness and knowledge concerning effective and efficient
• management of the District municipal solid waste stream.
• Assure that all initiatives involving outside private or public sector partners
• identify and incorporate mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Support waste reduction, recycling, and reuse programs and technologies that
• will be both environmentally and economically sustainable.