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will be capable of managing the recycling and disposal any abandoned manufactured housing delivered to the landfill as noted in the plan element for manufactured homes. • Development of a new Interlocal agreement: As the current agreement is predicated on a disposal facility to which all the signatories have pledged their waste, a new agreement would have to be chartered based on alternative characteristics and for reasons other than having a common, local,publicly owned disposal facility. • Landfill closure and long-term maintenance: While this inevitable,the County must ensure means of managing the closed landfill for at least for thirty years according to Federal law. If any environmental problems arise,the County must provide solutions. • Conversion to single-stream recvclin�: Long-term this does appear to be the direction that most curbside programs are headed as they have been in other counties and typically single stream includes conversion from bins to rollcarts along with automated collection. The Work Group and various elected officials have expressed interest in this technique as well. Solid Waste Advisory Board(SWAB) has endorsed it. Currently there is not sufficient staff capacity to effectively plan and implement this conversion even if it is adopted or recommended. • Expansion of rural residential curbside rec cly in�: the program is now stabilized covering primarily the densest 2/3 of the County's unincorporated areas. While there is some demand for expansion, a few homes have been added due to natural growth along existing routes and some infill areas could be readily added to current routes,no long- term, large-scale decisions have been made to expand • Franchised waste collections: Franchises could be considered as a means to provide more waste collection for both residences and businesses in unincorporated areas. While they may provide significant benefits including: reducing truck miles traveled due to elimination of overlapping/competing routes, enhanced enforcement of local environmental rules, expanded access to service in sparsely settled or hard-to-reach areas, more rigorous and accurate reporting requirements on waste disposal, stabilization and minimization of collection costs. No decisions have been made. The one area of apparent consensus among the Work Group was that any solid waste franchise would be voluntary, wherein the potential customer could always self haul as an altemative to using the franchisee(s). • Regulatory and economic incentives to promote waste reduction: As corollaries to implementing recycling collection programs,regulations and incentives can maximize program results. Orange County began residential curbside cardboard collection in November 2008 and banned it from the garbage in March 2009. Similar bans could be implemented along with economic incentives such as Pay As You Throw waste collection. There has been little short-term political interest in Pay-As-You-Throw over the past year. • Review of other alternative technologies and consideration of re iog nal approaches The SWAB has been tasked by the BOCC with conducting a review these two items due in 2010-11. Ultimately, use of large-scale alternative technologies may require regional approaches to achieve sufficient economies of scale. • Development of infrastructure to collect and manage source separated or�anic wastes. This has been discussed in only very broad and abstract terms. It is very much a future oriented issue, although privately contracted infrastructure exists now and is cost- effective where wastes and their collection routes are concentrated. 14