Renegotiation Of Waste Disposal Services In Key West, Florida

Abstract

Effective planning of a solid waste recycling program is a substantial challenge for the current waste management system in Key West, Florida.  Solid waste management strategies have to be reorganized in light of the social and economic recycling, recovery, and reuse philosophical approaches which are dramatically changing consumer behaviors across the globe.  The growing concern for environmental issues and the goal of local sustainable development have moved the management of solid waste to the forefront of the public agenda.  This paper focuses on efforts to agree upon a city-wide initiative to increase waste diversion within the prevailing political, environmental, and economic climate in which waste disposal activities had dominated the market.  It discusses how the traditional two-party solid waste hauling contract was altered by the addition of outside third-party interests forcing a multi-party negotiation processes.