Remote Sustainable Battle Creek Committee meeting - Oct. 26, 2026

The Sustainable Battle Creek Committee met remotely on October 26, 2026, with a presentation from Calhoun County Assistant Director of Community Development Lucy Huff on the county recycling program and draft materials management plan. The county’s recycling operations are funded through its host-community agreement with the C&C landfill. The plan sets a county recycling-rate goal of 10%, supports expanded commercial recycling and organics programs, and identifies a separate, approximately 10,000-square-foot recycling drop-off facility as a future need; that facility is not approved or funded in the discussion. The plan is open for public comment, with committee review and municipal approvals still to come. The county said its existing drop-off and collection services are seeing increased volumes, and it is exploring ways to improve commercial recycling data and access.

On procurement, the county reported that it used a portion of state funds associated with the materials management plan to procure a recycling education campaign through an RFP; Bluefish was the successful marketing vendor. The campaign is expected to launch in the next month or two, with no contract amount stated. No contract award vote, spending motion, or other procurement decision was taken at this meeting. The committee also discussed revising the city’s greenhouse-gas plan and agreed on December 14 as its next meeting date.