AUSTIN, Texas - The City of Austin is not on track to meet its zero-waste goal. According to an audit, it's not even halfway at its goal.

The audit also found inconsistences in recycling and composting messages.

What we know:

The zero-waste goal means keeping waste out of landfills and incinerators through recycling and composting. City-managed waste is only about 15 percent of the system. The rest is through private haulers.

Austin Resource Recovery has a zero-waste goal of 90 percent diversion by 2040. That master plan was adopted in 2011.

The audit found ARR was only at 37 percent for 2024, which is two percent lower than a decade earlier.

Read the audit below and here .

"Despite their efforts, the diversion rate has been about the same for the last decade at 37 percent," K

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