Resident Food Equity Advisors
The Resident Food Equity Advisors program is currently accepting applications for the 2022-23 program! Click here for more information and to learn how to apply.
Salt Lake City
Sustainability
Contact SLCgreen (801) 535-6470 | slcgreen@slcgov.com
Highlights & Announcements
Idle Free Salt Lake City
Click here for a variety of tools for residents and businesses interested in learning more about Salt Lake City’s anti-idling ordinance.
Garbage Rates Update
Fees are going up across all three sizes. Click here to learn more.
Community Food Resources
What Belongs in the Blue Bin?
Learn which materials are recyclable in Salt Lake City and which items do NOT belong in your blue bin.
What Belongs in the Compost Bin?
Information about materials that belong in your brown curbside compost can.
100% Renewable Electricity
Click here to learn about the Community Renewable Energy Act and how Salt Lake City is working towards a Climate Positive future.
The Art on Our Refuse Trucks
Learn more about the designs on our waste and recycling truck wraps!
SLCgreen Blog
It’s Pride Month – Let’s Talk about ‘Queer Ecology’
Happy Pride Month! With the 2022 Pride Festival coming to a close in Salt Lake City earlier this month, SLCgreen would like to extend our celebration by discussing some of the ways that LGBTQIA+ history and sustainability go hand-in-hand! Sustainability, with its goals of protecting natural resources, slowing the effects of climate change, and building […]
Eighteen Utah communities join the Community Renewable Energy Agency, continue working with Rocky Mountain Power to meet their net-100 percent clean energy goals
As of the May 31st participation deadline, 18 cities and counties across Utah have joined the effort to launch a default net-100% renewable electricity option for Rocky Mountain Power customers in their communities. Participating communities stretch as far south as Springdale, as far east as Castle Valley, as far north as Ogden, and as far […]
SLC Ranks 8th in EPA’s Top Mid-sized Cities for ENERGY STAR buildings
Salt Lake City is known for many things- hosting the 2002 Winter Olympics, being the subject of several TV shows and films over the years (including an episode in the newest Stranger Things season), and poor air quality to name a few. However, we can also add ranking 8th in the EPA’s Top Mid-sized Cities […]
Connect SLC and Sustainability
Did you know that Salt Lake City is working on a new transportation master plan? Master plans are a great way to engage with your city and help make it a place YOU want to live in! The last transportation master plan for Salt Lake City was published in 1996, over twenty years ago. In 2021, […]
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