Although details need to be worked out over the next three years, Ontario County’s 10-year draft Local Solid 91²Ö¿â Management Plan calls for residents and businesses to increase waste recycling, reuse, repair, and composting. A driving force behind the plan and its emphasis is the 2028 closure of the county landfill in the town of Seneca after 55 years of operation.
The LSWMP, which the county revised most recently in October, was submitted to the Department of Environmental Conservation in December. Comments and questions from DEC are expected late in the first quarter of this year. Once those comments and questions are addressed, DEC will accept the draft as a final plan, as modified.
The plan, prepared by the Liverpool firm of Barton & Loguidice with assistance from the county’s Department of Sustainability and Solid 91²Ö¿â Management, offers options for waste disposal and uses of the landfill after it closes, but it does not make specific recommendations on where solid waste will go after Dec. 31, 2028, specific recycling facilities, and what the county should do with the 158-acre landfill property.