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Draft <br /> Appendix J <br /> FOR REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY <br /> Excerpt from Guidance Document Memo from Previous Plan Submittal (2006 plan <br /> submitted 2008). Current status of plan differs. This is submitted for comparative purposes <br /> only and includes no work done by the Work Group after June 2008. <br /> Options for Commercial Waste and Recycling Collection. Jim Frey of RRSI presented a set of <br /> options for collecting recyclables and waste from the non-residential sector. Staff and RRSI <br /> developed options with input from focus groups held in October 2007 and presented in an <br /> electronic survey to all businesses and other non-residential entities in Orange County(and <br /> Chapel Hill part of Durham County) administered during January,February and March. Options <br /> include: <br /> � Mandatory recycling with business' choice of licensed recycling and waste haulers,No <br /> County role in collection,just enforcement. <br /> • County, with Towns, selects franchise haulers for waste and/or recycling.Use of <br /> franchise recvcling hauler(s) is optional; other haulers may be selected but franchisee(s) <br /> must offer recycling.No County role in collection,just billing, education and <br /> enforcement. <br /> • County-provided recycling with choice of licensed waste hauler. County administers <br /> recycling fees based on size and intensity of business. <br /> • County-provided recycling and franchise haulers for waste collection with fees based on <br /> service levels. <br /> The commerciaUnon-residential sector is the sector with the fewest publicly provided recycling <br /> services,thus the greatest opportunities for additional recycling tonnage to be collected. <br /> Currently the County mandates recycling of corrugated cardboard, scrap metal and clean wood <br /> but does not collect those. Generator must manage them as separated items for recycling. County <br /> provides recycling program services to only part of the bar and restaurant sector for cans,bottles <br /> and paper and, for a smaller sub-sector, food waste recycling. The Work Group is considering <br /> the means of expanding collection in the commercial sector as a key purpose of the March 26 <br /> meeting. For further consideration, as a corollary need, are ways to control waste flow through <br /> either franchising or licensing with a public destination to be designated as a way to exert more <br /> environmental scrutiny and fiscal control over solid waste. <br /> One-hundred-foriy six businesses and other non-residential entities replied to the survey and <br /> there was no clearly favored option. Thus RRSI will present the results of the survey and its <br /> analysis and opinions of the various options based on the respondents' preferences and RRSI's <br /> own experience designing and implementing commercial waste and recycling systems <br /> elsewhere. <br /> We request that the Work Group review the options and if prepared, express its preference for <br /> one or more of the options if there is a clear preference among the members. The expression of <br /> preference and/or the need for more information will provide the staff will appropriate guidance <br /> to take the next steps in developing what could be the most complex and challenging single <br /> element of the overall solid waste plan. <br /> 93 <br />