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schools' and government buildings' waste collection and responsibility for litter control and illegal dumping. The County provides curbside recycling to all of the approximately18,500 urban single family residences, 13,500 of the 21,000 rural residences, 95%of all 15,000 multifamily units, five unstaffed dropoff sites, five staffed sites,hazardous waste collection, electronics collection including televisions and computers for residents and businesses, compost bins sales and education and outreach. The electronics recovery program is already positioned to meet�lie pending statewide landfill ban on televisions and computers because we have been collecting them for five years at our permanent facility. Door-to-door solid waste collection services are ali privately provided in unincorporated Orange County. The three Towns all provide public waste collection to residential customers in their respective incorporated areas and a mix of public and private providers is used by commerciaUnon-residential entities in the incorporated areas. iJNC provides most waste coilection and recycling services by contract. The majority of waste generated in Orange County is delivered to the Orange County Landfiil (see Table ES-2). Incorporated areas The Towns continue to deliver their MSW to the Orange County landfill as a key element of the interlocal agreement adopted in 1999 All three Towns operated their own municipal residential waste coilection service and all responded to the 2008 extension of the landfill ban to residential cardboard with passage and enforcement of their own bans on putting cardboard in the garbage. Each of the three Towns continues to make marginal improvements to their already relatively efficient, cost-effective waste collection systems. Carrboro has automated 100%of its residential collection and integrated its commercial and multifamily routes. Hillsborough automated over 90%of residential routes in 2007 and in 2009 renewed its exclusive franchise contract with Waste Industries to continue collecting non-residential waste within its corporate limits. Chapel Hill continues its semi-automated residential collection and continues to consider fully containerized brush collection to reduce yard waste collection costs. UNC's MSW is now hauled by contractor Waste Industries to the Waste Industries transfer station in Durham. Generally the Work Crroup and Solid Waste Advisory Board(SWAB)have not addressed the management of waste from within the incorporated areas except as it might pertain to a future interlocal agreement. The Town and County Managers have discussed the delivery of their MSW to out-of-county facilities but have not made any collective decision about whether to enter a cooperative disposal arrangement. It is Orange County's intention to enter an agreement with the City of Durham to deliver MSW and bulky waste from County facilities to the City of Durham Transfer Station after the Orange County Landfill closes. Unincorporated Areas The County collects the majority of residential MSW generated in the unincorporated area from its five staffed convenience centers throughout the County. In 2008-09 that included 8,005 tons of MSW and another 3,468 tons of bulky waste that were placed in the MSW landfill as well as 8