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Appendi�e J <br /> Electronics Recycling Plan <br /> Electronics Recvcling Plan for Oran eg County <br /> Submitted for review 10/27/10 Reviewed by DENR 11/1/10 Comments incorporated 11/2/10 <br /> 1. Information on Existing Programs to recycle or reuse discarded computer equipment,televisions and <br /> other electronic devices, how program is operated and how equipment is marketed. <br /> Orange CounTy has a drop off program for recycling computers,televisions and other electronic equipment in <br /> place with six locations for residents to bring all types of electronics at no cost. The sites include all five <br /> staffed solid waste convenience centers that are open to only residents of the County,but not businesses and <br /> the drop off site at the Orange County landfill which is open to businesses and other non-residential generators <br /> of electronics as well as residents. The drop-off program has been in place since 2004 and last year collected a <br /> measured 482 tons of electronics of a11 kinds including obsolete or unwanted media such as video tape, audio <br /> tape, compact disks, digital video disks, etc. The program is funded exclusively from the County's 3-R <br /> recycling fee basic level fee that is charged to all improved properties within the County. The County intends <br /> to keep operating this program in its current form for the foreseeable future. <br /> The program employs one man full time driving a pickup truck towing sma11 open top trailers to collect <br /> � electronics and media from all the sites and return materials to a central warehouse at the landfill. The <br /> operator runs a route and swaps the trailers fu11 of scrap electronics for empty ones,returns to the processing <br /> warehouse located at the landfill to unload, sort,process,palletize and prepare the goods for market. A high <br /> level of sorting by County staff ensures bettex pricing from the vendor. We paid nothing last year due to the <br /> positive value of items like CPUs, copper wire and circuit boards offsetting the costs of disposal of CRTs and <br /> `junk' like old printers or VCRs with little value. We also sell bales of scrap plastic collected when it falls off <br /> the equipment being processed. <br /> The County contracts solely with Synergy, a North Carolina based company with its TSO 14001 certification <br /> and R certifications in place to collect,process, and market all the electronics received at the drop-off sites and <br /> landfill site. Monthly Synergy furnishes a list showing the amount of materials brought in by Orange County <br /> and that information is compiled annually. A complete report and summary table is included below for FY <br /> 2009-10. - <br /> The University of North Carolina, UNC Hospitals and the public school systems generally have their own <br /> electronics waste management systems so they don't use the Orange County system as a general rule. Some <br /> individual exceptions do occur. There are also other informal networks for cell phone recovery using drop-off <br /> points on the UNC campus, at Whole Foods,the Family Violence Prevention Center, etc. <br /> 111 <br />