SA2020’s operations ended on March 28, 2024.
Our data, reports, and stories will remain online through September 2024. Read more about our decision to dissolve on our blog.
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Increase Residential Composting

Residential organics recapture rate

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Increase Residential Composting

Progress

The composting rate has remained relatively flat over the last three years.

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Increase residential organics capture rate to 50% (50% by 2030)

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YearValueMargin of Error
202026%
202130%
202229%
202330%

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Organics Bin Recapture Rate

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City of San Antonio, Solid Waste Department

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San Antonio

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The capture rate measures how much organic material is being recovered based on how much of this material is in the waste stream. It is calculated by dividing the tons recovered from the organics bin—the green bin—by the total tons collected for all material.

Friends,

After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.

Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.

While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.

– Team SA2020