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," <br />the Waste Management transfer station of Wake County (near RDU Airport, 23 miles away) and <br />the Republic Industries landfill located in Person County (east of Roxboro, 49 miles away). <br />Table 2 addresses the possible diversion of waste to both of these facilities. <br />We have used the general rule recommended by I~R, Inc. to project at which point a private <br />waste hauler or generator would decide to use a more distant facility with a lower tipping fee: <br />every additional $1.50 disparity in tipping fee between the Orange Regional Landfill and another <br />landfill would justify a private hauler transporting his waste an additional 1 mile. <br />3 <br />To explain this method of analysis through an example, we consider below a scenario where a <br />front-loading refuse truck, with a payload of 10.5 tons is travelling to the Waste Management <br />transfer station near the RDU Airport, 23 miles distant from the Orange County Landfill. <br />Description <br />1) The "per mile" differential <br />times <br />2) additional distance to alternate <br />dlspOSal ~aclllty <br />divided liy <br />3) truck payload (in tons) <br />Formula <br />$1.50 <br />times <br />(one-way distance x 2) <br />divided by <br />truck payload <br />Example <br />' '$1.50 <br />times <br />(23 mi. x 2,= 46 mi.) <br />divided by <br />10.5 tons <br />$6.57 <br />In summary, $1.50x46 miles = 69 and 69 divided by 10.5 tons = $6.57. <br />This example suggests that, if the Orange Regional landfill .tipping fee were at least $6.57 <br />greater than the fee of the Waste Management transfer station. near RDU, a waste hauler would <br />probably haul the waste to the more distant disposal facility, because the savings in tipping. fees <br />would compensate for the increased transportation costs. <br />In each of those scenarios the added travelling distance to the alternate disposal facility, <br />measured from the Orange Regional Landfill, and the projected tipping fee differential data are <br />used to project what size payload-would provide the economic incentive to use .the alternate <br />facility. We have examined the MSW loads delivered to the Orange Regional Landfill from <br />private haulers during Cktober, 1998 to determine the range of waste payloads used, so we could <br />estimate the number of tons that would be diverted to each facility. <br />The estimated loss of MSW tonnage and tipping fee revenue to the Orange Regional Landfill due <br />to diversion of that waste to alternate disposal sites would need to be accommodated by an <br />increase in the tipping ~ #ees already projected. Further revising the tipping fee upward to <br />accommodate that loss of revenue would drive additional tonnage from the landfill, because <br />