This report provides an overview of current Department recycling and resource recovery efforts for the City of San Antonio and provides goals to better develop a comprehensive research and outreach project for recycling and resource recovery. In summary, the strategic plan highlights a 60% residential recycling rate as the City’s set goal for 2020. This goal will be achieved through improved recycling education and outreach, expanded recycling collection programs that would collect various types of materials, the creation of waste reduction and recycling incentives, and implementation of policies that would improve commercial recycling.