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More Jobs
Require hiring of local residents and services
to implement Zero Waste
Reuse, recycling and composting programs also create good, Green jobs. The Institute of Local SelfReliance has researched employment generated by recycling and composting and reuse industries.
Their research found that on a per-ton basis, sorting and processing recyclables can create 10 times
more jobs than landfilling or incineration. Recycling-based manufacturers employ more people at
higher wages than collection and sorting. Over 780 local processing jobs, 1,000 manufacturing jobs
and hundreds of youth jobs can be created through the implementation of the Zero Waste
initiatives.42 Ensure that City jobs in recycling collection and processing jobs contracted by the City
are good Green local jobs that pay household-sustaining wages, protect workers’ rights, guarantee
workplace protections, provide medical, leave, vacations and retirement benefits, hire local workers,
and provide a ‘just transition strategy’ for workers whose jobs are lost as a result of closing down
landfills and waste incinerators.
To create more jobs, priority actions are:
1. Require a set-aside of at least 25% of all City recycling collection and processing contracts for local
small businesses and nonprofit agencies.
2. Ensure that City jobs collecting organics and processing jobs contracted by the City are good Green
jobs (e.g. pay household-sustaining wages, protect workers’ rights, guarantee workplace protections,
provide medical, leave, vacations and retirement benefits, hire local workers, and provide a ‘just
transition strategy’ for workers whose jobs are lost as a result of closing down landfills and waste
incinerators).
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