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21 <br />Attachment 2 <br />Synopsis of Submittals in Response to Request for Expression of Interest in Construction and <br />Demolition Waste Processing at the Orange RegionaP Landfill. <br />[NOTE: amounts stated as potentially diverted and/or recycled by proposers were not verified by <br />staff <br />1. B&B Top Soil Mine, Durham, NC. Focus primarily on organic, compostable material. Desires <br />to license their technology to Orange Regional Landfill and not operate the system. <br />2. Browning Ferris Industries, Raleigh, NC. General proposal that suggested additional material <br />[from outside Orange County] would make the project more financially feasible. Suggested <br />"partnership" in their letter. State they are "recycling 75- 80% of the C&D received in [one <br />particular facility]". <br />3. Carolina Composting (Kevin Topek), Chapel Hill, NC. Focus primarily on organic, <br />compostable materials including yard waste, landclearing debris and clean wood wastes. Aiso <br />addresses other materials. Soil used in composts. Rock crushed for landscaping or decorative <br />use. Shows potential for 4596 recovery rate. Requires 4096 of current tipping fee, states that <br />facility can be operated for $10 per ton.. S uggcsts five year contract period. <br />4. Global Plasma Systems, Raleigh. NC. Describes a 230 ton per day facility to create <br />heatlelectricity from a mixed waste stream. No specific focus on construction and demolition <br />wastes. State they will build a 'Turn Key PPV (Plasma Pyrolysis V'itirfication) plant...for <br />treatment and disposal of selected mixture of hydrocarbon waste including rubber, plastic, <br />paper, synthetics, and possibly waste oil and slugs." Outlines investment of 525 million dollars <br />for plant. Shows 1.4 year payback from sale of electricity and slag.'Tip fee $55 per ton. Does <br />not address inert materials management. Slag at 209'oby weight of input. <br />5. McGrath Associates, San Luis Obispo, CA .Describes a no-capital, education and regulation- <br />oriented approach that focuses on waste reduction through design changes, builder education <br />and materials. exchanges from waste separated on site. States 39% diversion potential through <br />these measures. Landfill based measure include: drywall to agricultural soil amendment , <br />salvage, resale facility, retnanufacture of clean wood waste and inert material separation and <br />reuse. Suggests construction of finger jointed lumber from short dimension lumber. <br />6. Phoenix Recycling Corporation, Wilson, NC. Specific proposal that addresses processing all of <br />construction and demolition waste stream. Suggesu additional material [From outside Orange <br />County] would make project more viable. Estimated cost of 5800,000 to 51.2 million for <br />facility construction. Request ten year project site lease and payment per ton of material <br />received. Currently operating a facility in Havelock, NC with a reported 85~o diversion rate and <br />is constructing one in Charlotte, NC. <br />7. RecoverMat Technologies Washington, DC. Build, own and operate a facility on the landfill <br />site to process "select loads" at a cost "competitive with landfill disposal" to make and utilize <br />an alternative daily cover material. Term of fifteen years proposed. Lists almost all construction <br />and demolition materials for use in their alternative daily cover. <br />