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--- � — - — 2. Information on public awareness and education The electronics drop-off program has existed since 2004 at the landfill and 2005 at the convenience centers. In 2006, fees for businesses to drop-off CRTs were eliminated, bringing in more material. At the inception of the permanent program,print advertising,newspaper articles,posters,the County web site, a printed brochure in English and Spanish and news releases were used to publicize the program along with the annual Waste Matters mail out to all addresses in Orange County at that time. Electronics recycling program brochures (copy attached—to be updated) are placed at all drop-off sites and distributed at all public events and pertinent drop-off locations. E.g. Spanish language brochures placed in display racks at stores patronized by Spanish speakers. Each time there is a program change similar tactics are used to inform the public. A new monthly electronic solid waste newsletter is also now available on request to anyone that will contain any program updates to the electronics program as well as other programs. The trailers themselves at the Convenience Centers act as advertising as well. They are very visible with big signs and usually occupy a relatively prominent position at each convenience center. At the landfill the trailer is immediately across from the scalehouse, thus every landfill user can see it from the scale that they must cross to use the facility. Periodically the County reviews program results publicly and includes information about the electronics program. The tonnage has increased from 170 tons in FY 2003-2004 to 482 tons in FY 2009-10. Thus by defuution,public awareness is increasing and volume is increasing. 3. Information used to track tonnage Orange County requests that the contractor, Synergy provide detailed data reports including listing the televisions separately from other items they recycle. Synergy in response to this request provides information broken down by material and weight with each outgoing load. See attached spreadsheet an example of how the County manages the data received from Synergy. Below is the annual summary from FY 2009-10 Oran e County NC Annual Electronics Collection Totals FY 2009-10 (tons) Material Monitors TVs LCD CPUs/ Printers Battery Wire Circuit Low Plastic SONY Total Monitors La to s backu s boards Grade Amount 88.9 177.3 1.7 48.9 1.8 23 9.2 4.3 142 43 1.5 4822 (tons) Units 5,121 5,167 125 Na Na na na na na na na 4. Interaction with other units of local government to provide or receive services Orange County is the lead agency for solid waste management. As such, it has developed and operates all publicly run recycling programs used by residents of Orange County and some non-residential users and businesses;this includes electronics recycling programs. All three municipalities have linked their web page to the County's site for information and the various Town information offices routinely refer calls about electronics recycling to the County. This would include the part of the Town of Chapel Hill in Durham County. The three municipalities all provide bulky waste collection service and when a television or computer is placed at the curb for collection it is routinely dropped off at the recycling point at the landfill when the 112