Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
5 <br />Detailed Description of Proposed Grant Proiect <br />There are two independent parts to this proposal labeled as project A for the shingle recycling <br />rolloffs and project B for the horizontal .baler with in-feed conveyor. If funds are available for <br />both, the County can provide matching funds, if its solid waste management budget is passed as <br />submitted for FY 11-12. If funds are limited, our preference is to fund the shingle recycling <br />rolloffs first as those would divert new materials. If the baler can be partially funded in addition <br />to the shingle rolloff funding, the County would endeavor to provide all additional matching <br />funds to enable us to purchase the baler as well as the rolloffs. If all funds can be provided for <br />both projects requested, the County would match the request if its budget is passed as submitted. <br />Proiect A. This Proiect is for collectin roofm shingles at the Orange County landfill for <br />recyclm~ into paving material rather than landfillin~ them as is currentl done. <br />The program will include using a set of 20 cubic yard roll-off containers to transport the <br />segregated tear off shingles to those paving contractors that have been permitted by NC DENR <br />to include tear off shingles in their hot mix. We will get the requisite landfill permit <br />modifications. <br />Roofers and builders will be offered a significantly reduced tipping fee of estimated between <br />$20.00 to $30.00 per ton (final figure not yet determined) to deliver segregated roofing shingles, <br />free ofnon-shingle material to the Orange County Landfill. Those shingles will be dumped by <br />haulers and inspected and managed by landfill staff at the existing area of the landfill already <br />used for source-separated construction materials that are prohibited from landfilling by County <br />ordinance. Once shingles are loaded into the roll-off containers, they would be delivered by <br />County truck to the nearest permitted roofing shingle recycling facility for a negotiated price. ST <br />Wooten and Orange County are discussing possible arrangements, assuming ST Wooten receives <br />their permits for facilities in both Chatham and Alamance Counties. They have stated they are <br />pursuing those. Another potential market is the Greencycle facility in Durham if it is permitted. <br />Wooten has agreed to pay hauling costs for clean material to their facilities. <br />While roofing shingles will not be made a prohibited material under Orange County's Regulated <br />Recyclable Materials Ordinance, the County believes that the lowered tipping fee will be an <br />inducement to roofers to bring segregated shingles. This belief has been tentatively confirmed <br />through several telephone interviews with area roofers who reacted positively to the ideas of a <br />lowered tipping fee and recycling the shingles. One roofer contacted said that he would use the <br />fact that shingles were to be recycled as a marketing tool specifically in this region. <br />We project that the program may divert between 375 and 1,900 tons of shingles a year when <br />fully implemented. This is based on two potential estimates of roofing shingles available: If 10% <br />of current C&D landfill totals: are shingles then that is 750 tons out of 7,500 tons annually <br />landfilled and we may capture one half of those at 375 tons and a high end estimate of 1,900 tons <br />based on capturing about '/z of the state's estimate of prorated share of shingles generated in <br />Orange County of 3,800 tons. That lowered tipping fee on the incoming shingles would result in <br />a loss of revenue to the landfill, so we will also be marketing this lowered fee to other roofers <br />who do not now use the Orange County landfill. The new tons would make the program fiscally <br />sustainable. <br />2 <br />