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Draft variety of very difficult-to-manage materials such as dead animals,obsolete mobile homes and disaster debris. Possible regional solutions are not clearly delineated nor are the potential partners as each jurisdiction has its own needs and wants and the geographically likely partners are in different place on the solid waste decision-making/spectrum. Plannin�A�proach and Progress Towards Waste Reduction and Disposal Goals While Orange County is the lead agency in overall solid waste management in Orange County, it continues to actively engage with its partners,the three Towns and L1NC as well as citizens and businesses overall. There is a general understanding since the first plan submittal in 1997,that a single integrated plan will be submitted by all the partners and a specific reaffirmation of the 61%waste reduction goal in the resolution from each government attached to each plan submittal. That goal or another goal will be adopted as part of the current plan submittal. In 2005,the Board of County Commissioners established the Solid Waste Plan Work Group to further the specific objective of creating a more comprehensive solid waste plan. An interim plan was sent forward in 2008. The Work Group as it's known continues to review technical materials and deliver its opinion and recommendations on matters related to the reports referenced above jurisdictions and technical staff from each jurisdiction's Sanitation/Solid Waste Division. The Work Group may sunset in the fall 2010 following review and input to the preparation of the 2010 solid waste management plan update. In 2008,the County adopted the Work Group recommendation,originally recommended by its technical consultant,Resource Recycling Systems,to switch to two-stream recycling(paper in one bin and cans and bottles in the second at all types of locations except dropoff sites)and by December 2008,all programs were converted to that collection mode from the six-way separation that had existed in one form or another since the inception of public recycling in 1987. This change created a much more efficient means of collection and enabled continued growth in the number of stops on rural curbside routes and commercial routes using existing staff and some new equipment to process and move material to market more efficiently. The equipment, including a leased road tractor,walking floor trailers and a rubber tire loader was capitalized from current budget allocations and capital reserves with no new funds needed. Over 150 new commercial stops and 1,000 rural residential curbside stops were added. Some commercial stops serve multiple businesses. Several small staff initiated program changes were made in congruence with the general approach of adding new recycling materials when markets arise,but they were not made in accordance with any particular planning dictate. Thus there is now a program to collect non- bottle#2 and#5 plastics at drop off sites, old media such as videotape is collected with electronics and newspaper and magazine collection were combined at the dropoff sites, because the paper buyers sell the combination all to newsprint mills. Thus there was no price reduction, in fact pricing is maximized for this grade of material and hauling became more efficient. In prior years the work Group had broadly reviewed the concept of building an in-County MRF, commercial recycling and waste management in the unincorporated areas. In 2009,the Work Group's emphasis focused more sharply on waste and recycling management in unincorporated Orange County due partly to impending service reductions at convenience centers. Due to these increased fiscal and operational pressures,the main emphasis was on how to manage, improve and finance the solid waste convenience centers along with a lesser emphasis on rural curbside waste collection and expanding and improving curbside recycling. 42