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i <br /> � <br /> � <br /> Draft <br /> i <br /> PLANNING ELEMENTS �� <br /> NC LOCAL GOVERNMENT 10 YEAR SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN I <br /> PLANNING YEARS 2008 through 2018 <br /> Check appropriate element <br /> Reduction Disaster Response Illegal Disposal/Litter Disposal Collection i <br /> Transfer outside geographic Education with community& Collection of Computer Equipment and Purchasing Recycled Special Waste <br /> area through school Televisions Products <br /> ✓Composting and Mulching Incineration with/without energy Management of Abandoned Manufactured Recycling and Reuse <br /> recovery Homes <br /> COMPLETED ACTIONS INCOMPLETE ACTIONS NEW/REVISED ACTIONS <br /> KEY ACTIONS KEY ACTIONS WHY INCOMPLETE? KEY ACTIONS DATE DUE ESTIMATED TONS <br /> DIVERTED IN l OTH YEAR <br /> County continues to accept Program is futly Pennitting requirements Further waste reduction Next solid waste plan Commercial compostable <br /> source separated yard waste operational for for composting facilities measures could include update in 2012 tonnage could be up to 2,000 <br /> and clean wood waste for yard waste and are more onerous than expanding food waste to 3,000 more tons(1/4 to 1/3 <br /> grinding,mulching and sale clean wood waste. for mulching facilities collection to�nore of food and wet paper <br /> as finished mulch or boiler Yard waste by and there is adequate commercial customers remaining in the commercial <br /> fuel or feedstock for colored state law and clean coverage by private and residential organics waste stream. <br /> mulch.� 10,000 TPY in. wood waste by sector under contract to collection combined <br /> County collects over 2,200 County ordinance. collect and process with containerized yard Residential tonnage could be <br /> tons of food waste from No action has been commercial food waste. waste collection. another 2,000 to 3,000 tons <br /> businesses&institutions to taken to consider Current hauler could (1/4 to 1/3 of residential food, <br /> divert for composting with expauding collect inore if there Neither item is part of other organics and wet paper) <br /> private contractor and sells programs to were greater funding, the near tenn solid remaining in the residential �, <br /> compost from contractor include collection but funding is now waste plan consideration waste strealn.Some could be <br /> �1,000 tpy. from other sectors constrained by budget diverted to backyard <br /> County conducted annual or processing otl�er considerations. coinposting <br /> backyard compost bin sale organics on site. <br /> for twelve years,now sells Further the current site <br /> discounted bins permanently is constrained physically <br /> from office.Over 1,000 sold and politically from <br /> last FY. expa�iding its solid <br /> County staff conducts several waste operation. <br /> backyard comopsting and I, <br /> vermicomposting workshops Any residential ' <br /> annually for adults,schools, collection of organics <br /> town employees,farmer's would be combined <br /> markets etc. with ard waste and that <br /> 63 �'�, <br /> i <br /> . , <br />