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The Solid Waste Management Department continues to manage the Sanitation Division including five rurally located solid waste convenience centers,the County schools' waste collection and responsibility of litter control and illegal dumping. Door-to-door solid waste collection services are all privately provided in unincorporated Orange County. The three Towns all provide public waste collection to residential customers in their respective incorporated azeas and a mix of public and private providers is used by commerciaUnon-residential entities in the incorporated areas. LTNC provides most of its own waste collection and recycling services by contract and some in-house. The waste hauling contractor delivers UNC waste out of county and the recycling contractors haul and processes materials themselves or sell to other markets. The majority of waste generated in Orange County is delivered to the Orange County Landfill(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. Each of the three Towns continues to make marginal improvements to their already relatively efficient, cost-effective waste collection systems. An evaluation in 2008 of the option to franchise commercial waste collection showed little fmancial advantage to the community and some environmenta.l benefits from reducing the number of haulers. All three Towns operated their own municipal residential waste collection service and all responded to the landfill ban on residential cardboard with passage and enforcement of their own bans on putting cardboard in the garbage. They cooperated with the County in an intensive three- month education and enforcement campaign that resulted in the Towns not collecting waste with noticeable cardboard in it and notifying the offending household of the violation of the ordinance using a variety of ineasures beginning with a `tag' and non-collection and escalating to a civil penalty for continued violation. Carrboro has automated 100%of its residential collection and integrated its commercial and multifamily routes. The Town collects almost all the multifamily waste and continues to haul waste from about half the commercial customers with a variety of private haulers holding the other half of the commercial business. 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 dominates the non-residential collection routes holding an estimated 80% of customers; the remainder is privately collected. The Town of Chapel Hill continues to consider fu11y 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. The Towns collect no measurable construction waste. Constxuction waste from projects on campus is handled by the particular construction contractor and the majority goes out of County but is regulated similarly to Orange County's RRMO. Generally the Work Group 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 21