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Table 3-a Potential Additional Tons that are readil recyclable <br /> Sector Residential Multifamily Commercial Total <br /> Materials <br /> 50%of paper, cans 2,200 800 2,200 5,200 <br /> bottles now landfilled <br /> 25%of clean lumber, 500 150 300 950 <br /> metal,non-bottle <br /> plastics&electronics <br /> now landfilled <br /> Food waste to 200 200 <br /> backyard com ostin <br /> Total potential new 2,900 950 2.500 6,350 <br /> recycling tons <br /> The recent additions of#2 (HDPE) and#5 (PP)rigid non-bottle plastics at drop off sites, adding <br /> old electronic media with electronics,the residential cardboard ban and implementing permanent <br /> sales of backyard compost bins are examples of those strategies. It is possible to achieve our <br /> goal, as it appeazs that our MSW generation rate remains steady while population increases <br /> slowly at 1.5%to 2%per year. Until last year,the total amount landfilled per capita had <br /> continued to decrease, even when we account for what is landfilled out-of-county included as it <br /> is in each year's state report. <br /> Following projected landfill closure in early to mid 2013,no final formal agreement has yet been <br /> made for long-term disposal. The County has conducted preliminary dialog with the City of <br /> Durham about use of their transfer station for MSW transslupment and the County has stated its <br /> intention to 1 take tlie tons under its control to the City of Durham transfer station. The various <br /> Town managers and the County Manager have begun dialog on whether to develop a cooperative <br /> partnership to all ship waste to the same location or determine that the Towns should each make <br /> their own arrangement for disposal. Those discussions aze ongoing and have not yet resulted in <br /> any recommendations to the elected bodies. <br /> Other operations now conducted at the Eubanks Road facility axe projected to continue including <br /> construction and demolition waste burial,yard waste and clean wood waste mulching,collection <br /> and transfer of tires,white goods, scrap metal,and conventional recyclables processing and <br /> transfer. <br /> Evaluation of Program Performance <br /> Even without an implemented formallong-term plan,county solid waste efforts continue to <br /> evolve and change. Cardboard was added to curbside recycling in 200$-09 for a contract cost of <br /> $0.15 per household in the urban areas. County-run rural routes experienced a slight increase in <br /> hauling time due to increased volume from cardboard causing trucks to have to leave routes and <br /> dump sooner than they did before the additional volume was added. Overall recycling tonnage <br /> dipped 0.9%in 2008-09 compared to 2007-08 (tables 1-h and 1-I). Commercial recycling efforts <br /> expanded in the past two years to another 150 stops and tonnage increased 20%last year. Market <br /> value for all commodities,especially paper has improved dramatically in the past eight months <br /> and this year the County took on processing and marketing of urban curbside tonnage, increasing <br /> 32 <br />