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. outreach arm of the County Solid Waste Departrnent and the University's Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling. Privately collected waste in the unincorporated areas is generally assumed to go elsewhere as haulers currently have no obligation to bring it to Orange County although the County licenses them primarily to ensure they comply with the requirement to separate cardboard,metal and clean wood for recycling. Typically where hauling routes end on the fringes of the County, private haulers take advantage of lower tipping fees elsewhere. Those with their own landfill or transfer station use them. Telephone surveys with the two lazgest private haulers operating in the County confum this. Micro-haulers defined as those with fewer than 500 customers tend to use the Orange County landfill generally but those serving the northeast portion of the County along with nearby areas of Durham or Person County report using the Durham Transfer Station or the private MSW lined landfill in Person County near Roxboro. Both facilities are cheaper for them, closer to their respective customer bases and do not have the extensive environmental ordinances that they are subject to in Orange County. They are aware of the County ordinances prohibiting disposal of cardboard,metal and clean wood with waste. The Solid Waste Advisory Board consisting of up to eight formally appointed citizens members, up to two each selected by the four jurisdictions plus an ex-officio member from iJNC, offers ongoing policy guidance and comment on staff work. They also provide recommendations and ideas to the BOCC on solid waste matters. Each set of two SWAB members also periodically reports back to their respective jurisdictional elected bodies on matters affecting them such as the County's overall solid waste management plan. With the re-examination of the current Interlocal Agreement,the future of how the SWAB will be constituted is somewhat uncertain. RRMO as a model of inter�overnmental coo eration As the Regulated Recyclable Materials Ordinance (RRMO) and Solid Waste planning requirements have strengthened and matured over the eight years since its inception, each of the jurisdictions has formalized its means of informing the County of permitted construction or demolition projects within its boundaries and collecting solid waste plan fees for the County's effort. Through ordinance and formal agreements, the various jurisdictions now provide notification and allow plan review of new construction and demolition to ensure adherence to the County's mandate to recycle wood,metal and cardboard as well to ensure the new or substantially renovated projects provide adequate, accessible outdoor storage space for recyclables to be collected. The County Solid Waste Department regularly receives lists of development applications for all non-single family building projects so they can ensure a solid waste plan is filed, inspect job sites and provide education and enforcement of the aspects of the RRMO. Solid waste stafF from Carrboro, Chapel Hill and iJNC continue to inspect dumpsters and rolloff containers under their respective jurisdictions' control for the presence of regulated materials and routinely tag such containers to prevent their collection until such materials are removed. Tagging reduces the landfill tip fee penalties the Towns or the University may incur and, for C&D waste, ensures accountability for where waste is delivered. Solid Waste Convenience Center sta.ff educate, urge and direct the public to separate regulated materials at the Convenience Center sites, as the trucks delivering waste from the sites to the landfill are treated similarly to any other non-residential truck and routinely penalized for presence of regulated materials in their loads. iJNC employs its own staff to educate contractors, 40