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Draft Evaluation of Pro�ram Performance Even without an implemented formal long-term plan, county solid waste efforts continue to evolve and change. Cardboard was added to curbside recycling for a contract cost of$0.15 per household in the urban areas and a slight hauling time penalty on the County-run rural routes due to increased volume. Overall recycling tonnage dipped 0.9% in 2008-09 compared to 07-08. Commercial recycling efforts expanded in the past two years to another 150 stops and tonnage increased 20%last year. Market value for all commodities, especially paper has improved dramatically in the past eight months and this year the County took on processing and marketing of urban curbside tonnage, increasing its income over$20,000 a month. These two changes have provided unanticipated revenue that will be used to enable more internal financing of recycling services at convenience centers using the 3-R Fee revenues while stabilizing other existing recycling program funding using these new revenues. Various waste reduction and recycling programs have matured and continued to grow. 'The County's hazardous waste program,known as the Toxic Reduction Improvements Program or T.R.I.P. has added recovery of old media like diskettes,videotape and audio cassettes this year to the existing collection of conventional Hazardous Household Wastes, automotive fluids, filters and batteries collection from Convenience Centers and the electronics program at Convenience Centers and the Landfill, Tonnage increased from 595 in 06-07 to 703 in 07-08 and 733 in 08-09, a 23%increase.Further 18%increase is projected for FY 2009-10. (See table 3-B below) Curbside recycling tonnage from both rural and urban curbside programs dropped slightly in 2008-09 compared to the previous year despite modest program size growth.It is projected to fall again in 2009-10 for urban but increase slightly for rural. We believe the tonnage decrease was due primarily to recessionary pressure resulting in reduced size and number of papers, magazines,junk mail, etc and continued lightweighting of containers rather than any decline in citizen participation. Multifamily tonnage surprisingly increased 4%in 2008-09 then is projected to fall this year while the number of units served remained stable. Commercial tonnage increased 20%due primarily to program expansion. Then will dip slightly in 2009-10 (Table 3-c) due possibly to an overall decline in sales and related economic activity. Table 3-a Rec clin Tonna e from Multi-Famil and Curbside Pro rams 2007-2010 Program Tonnage 08-09 %Change. 09-10 through Percent change for full 2007-08 Vs. 07-08 April 09-10 will be updated when available Urban Curb 4,738 4,516 -5% 3,460 tons thru -8%projected April 4,152 extra olated Rural Curb 1,843 1,784 -3% 1,363 tons thru 2%projected April. 1,817 Multifamily 1,240 1,294 4% 942 tons thru -3%projected April. I,256 extra olated 34