2030 Comprehensive Plan Update, April 2024

Environmental Protection

Action EP 7.1 Completed 2021

Action EP 7.2 Completed 2011

Action EP 7.3 Waste-to-energy Demonstration Partner with the North Carolina Cooperative Extension and related institutions, agencies, and organizations to explore and develop a demonstration waste-to-energy project. Action EP 7.4 Environmentally-friendly Product Use Work with regional agencies to explore options for assuring the use of compostable plastic, recyclable paper, and/or re-usable checkout bags by stores throughout the region, as well as a reduction in the use of polystyrene foam (Styrofoam) food service containers, including those in the City of Raleigh. Similar ordinances in other cities apply to grocery stores with gross annual sales exceeding two million dollars, and pharmacies with five or more locations; penalties apply for organizations in violation.

Action EP 7.6 Removed 2021

Action EP 7.7 Environmentally Preferable Purchasing

Expand on current policy by including specific goals for toxic pollution reduction, recycled content products, energy and water savings, green building construction and renovation, landscaping, forest conservation, and agricultural bio-based products.

Action EP 7.5 Completed 2015

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