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t When the MSW landfill is full,the partners will have to deternune alternative disposal arrangements and they are conducting those discussions currently As well they will consider whether to adopt a revised interlocal agreement to continue a framework for waste management. Other activities are anticipated to continue at the current site and accept in-County waste and recyclables. The active intergovernmental partnership is also manifested through the work of the Solid Waste Advisory Board(SWAB) created in 2000 as part of the Interlocal Agreement,The SWAB advises the County on solid waste matters, budget and policy and communicates through its members to the various Town governments. In 2005,the Board of Orange County Commissioners established the Solid Waste Plan Work Group to further the specific objective of creating a more comprehensive solid waste plan. An interim plan was sent forward from this group for the 2006 planning period and approved in 2008. The Work Group continues to review technical materials and deliver its opinion and recommendations on matters related to the reports referenced above. A key recommendation of the Work Group as reflected in the 2006 report,.the full conversion to two-stream recycling, was accepted in 2008 has enabled recycling program expansion an investment in new equipment and no new staff. Recycling tonnage by the County programs remained essentially unchanged in 2008-09 while waste disposed at the County landfill dropped 9%. Other changes to advance the waste reduction goal have been highlighted in the list on pages 3 and 4 of this report. The County is in compliance with the variety of new landfill bans enacted by the State effective October 2009 including prohibitions on plastic bottles, oyster shells, oil filters and wooden pallets. We provide recycling opportunities for all those materials and led the state in plastic bottle recovery in 2008-09 at 29 pounds per capita.. The amount of attention that solid waste issues generate has resulted in ongoing debate over almost every aspect of solid waste planning and consequently few decisions have been made in the past five years. This process, while cumbersome, has resulted in development of some highly refined technical analyses and a high level of public input opportunity that will be helpful in future decision-making. Chan�es in the Solid Waste Mana�ement Plan for MSW Reduction Development of the Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan Recycling and Waste Reduction element The focus of developing the recycling and waste reduction element of the County's integrated solid waste management plan has shifted significantly from 2005 when the Solid Waste Plan Work Crroup began. At that time, the primary question was whether or not Orange County should build its own materials recovery facility (MKF) as the basis for planning future solid waste reduction strategies. Once it was deterniined that the County is not planning to enter the MRF business and that processing and marketing of recyclables we collect was better left to the private sector,then the focus of the planning effort shifted to a broader, but more incremental approach to the County's achievement of its sixty-one percent waste reduction goal. The work continues to be led by the Solid Waste Plan Work Group,although this group may soon sunset with future evaluations conducted by the SWAB. 11