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56 <br />Overall Program Summaries <br />Programmatic highlights for curbside recycling services are noted below. <br />Current Year (1998-991 <br />Urban curbside recycling presently serves about 13,700 homes, with an additiona1200 projected, for a total <br />of 13,900 planned by the end of the current year. Collections now average slightly over 257 tons per month, <br />up 4.5% from last year. This is slightly inflated because an estimated average of 36 tons a month of <br />commercial glass is combined with the tonnage from both curbside programs and the multifamily glass due <br />to our' lack of commercial glass processing capability so far this yeaz. Annual total urban curbside tonnage <br />(with a portion of the commercial glass added) is projected at 3,130 tons or 0.23 tons per household per <br />year. We project that the 200 additional homes to be added in the second half may account for 10 more <br />monthly tons than the monthly average now collected. Projected annualized contract cost per ton = $161 <br />(or $123 with tipping fee credit of $38/ton). <br />~~ <br />• Rural curbside recycling contractually serves 7,700 households, due to infill service on existing routes, <br />trucks pass by an estimated 8,200 homes. Monthly collections in the fu~st six months averaged about 60 <br />tons. Projected current year total is 720 tons (including a share of commercial glass) or slightly under 0.1 <br />ton per household annually. Projected annualized contract cost per ton = $210 (or $172 with tipping fee <br />credit of $38/ton). <br />• All curbside services are expected to yield 3,850 tons, with an average cost per ton, including contract <br />service, publicity and supplies of $177, or $139 including a $38 per ton tipping fee credit. <br />~ Weekly setout rate for urban curbside recycling is no longer reported by the current contractor as we have <br />determined the results to be unreliable. Rural setout count data are 31% for November and December, 1998 <br />and are not accurate enough to compare this year to last year, however curbside tonnage is up 8% and drop- <br />off site recycling increased 7.4%. We assume an increase in.curbside recycling tonnage even once an <br />estimated tonnage of commercial glass is factored out, because the total increased six month tonnage from <br />the programs into which commercial glass is now combined, exceeds estimated commercial glass tonnage <br />for the same period by a net 163 tons or 8.9% over last year. Average number of households served by <br />curbside is up only 3.6% in the same period. <br />Diversion of recyclables from the landfill due to single family residential recycling resulted in the diversion <br />rates during the first half of this fiscal year shown in <br />Table 1. <br />Next Yeaz (1999-001 <br />• The urban curbside program would serve 14,500 homes (up 9% by the end of the year from the start of the <br />current yeaz due to new construction and annexation); curbside recycling within Town limits next yeaz is <br />projected to be 3,200 tons, an increase of 2.2% above tonnage projected for 1998-99. Projected contract <br />collection cost per ton = $166 (rounded), or $126 per ton with tipping fee credit of $40. <br />• The rural curbside program is projected to serve 8,300 homes (equal to the actual homes now passed by, <br />plus some infill and growth along the existing routes); volume is projected to be 800 tons, an increase of <br />9 <br />