Read the press release announcing the City’s partnership with Solar Stewards to fund solar, air quality, and community resilience projects in historically underserved areas of Salt Lake City.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 18, 2024 Contact:Maria Schwarz385-271-7220maria.schwarz@slc.gov – – – – – Salt Lake City announces 2024 community food microgrant awardees Mayor Mendenhall and the Salt Lake City Sustainability Department have announced the groups that have been awarded funding through the 2024 SLC Community Food Microgrant program. This year, the second the program has […]
Through the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), local governments in Salt Lake County and Tooele County have the opportunity to develop the Greater Salt Lake Area Clean Energy and Air Roadmap (CLEAR). Learn more
Salt Lake City entered The Other Side Village (TOSV) site into the Utah Department of Environmental Quality’s Voluntary Cleanup Program to ensure the area is safe for residential use. Learn more here.
Click here for a variety of tools for residents and businesses interested in learning more about Salt Lake City’s anti-idling ordinance.
Fees are going up across all three sizes. Click here to learn more.
Learn which materials are recyclable in Salt Lake City and which items do NOT belong in your blue bin.
Information about materials that belong in your brown curbside compost can.
Tackling Climate Change: A Race We Can Win Together! Mitigating climate change is both a sprint and a marathon. The challenge? We need to cut our emissions and local air pollution drastically in the near term while investing in projects that can have sustained impact over time. The good news? The Biden Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act has provided billions […]
Every year, we release a Year-in-Review with featuring our high-level accomplishments as well as priorities for the year ahead. It’s also an important time and opportunity for us to take stock, learn from the experiences we had the previous year, and to continue to improve our programs, services, and operations.
The Waste & Recycling teams will not be working Christmas Day or New Year’s Day. For each of those weeks, every collection day will be bumped by one day.
Recycling can be confusing. So, last week we had an informal Waste & Recycling Q&A on Instagram. We got some great questions and wanted to share them on our blog! Our residential contamination rate is sitting around 17% which is much better than average. There are some municipalities around the country that have a contamination […]
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