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11 <br />Drop-off and Convenience Center Sites <br />In FY 10-11 we collected 5,345 tons of recyclable material from these sites. This includes the five <br />unstaffed 24-hour sites in the incorporated areas and the five Solid Waste Convenience Centers <br />around the County. All .ten of these sites will transition to single stream as well. However, rigid <br />plastic and cardboard will continue to be separated at these locations. Cardboard is a clean, easy to <br />distinguish stream of material that continues to be a good revenue source. Each roll-off container <br />that is currently at each of the sites will be painted and will contain new signs illustrating the new <br />single stream system. <br />The drop-off sites will experience small efficiencies because all of the material will be ran back to <br />our facility in Chapel Hill, opposed to running the newspaper/magazine and mixed paper to market <br />in Durham or Raleigh, thus saving truck miles and fuel. The solid waste convenience centers will <br />experience more efficiencies as they are improved with compactors. Walnut Grove will be the first <br />site to experience the compactors. It will have one compactor for cardboard and one compactor for <br />single stream. We estimate that this could save our recycling collection vehicles almost 240 trips in <br />a year. <br />Education and Outreach <br />The detailed plan for our education and outreach approach has not yet been developed. However, <br />we will certainly develop a wide-ranging program that will utilize a variety of <br />education/outreach/advertising methods through the various phases of implementation. A <br />comprehensive education and outreach plan will be developed over the next 2-3 months to ensure a <br />well-informed public and a successful transition to single stream. We also plan to be available to <br />brief the Towns as to the implementation planning as some elected officials have expressed interest <br />in county staff speaking to their boards. <br />We currently do a great deal of education and outreach explaining the current preparation for <br />recycling collection. With single stream, the message will be more clear and concise so the message <br />will be easier to convey. Single Stream in carts does increase the potential for contamination and <br />will be a focus of our education. <br />Processing and Hauling <br />All of the material is currently brought back to our Eubanks Road facilities and consolidated with <br />all of the other recycling collection routes. Paper is dumped in one area of the property and bottles <br />and cans are dumped in another area of the property. The bottles and cans are currently shipped to a <br />MRF in Greensboro on a walking floor trailer and the paper is shipped to Durham using 40-yard <br />roll-off containers transported by a hook lift truck. Once urban curbside changes to single stream, <br />all other programs will need to change to single stream as well due to processing space constraints <br />and hauling constraints. Processing and hauling will become both more straightforward as there will <br />only be one comingled material for staff to receive, reload onto tractor trailers and haul to market <br />providing a much quicker turnaround time for the route collection trucks, pad processing and <br />hauling to one market location. <br />Heavier payloads of single stream material will be shipped to one market, opposed to light loads of <br />bottles aid cans shipped to Greensboro and light loads of paper shipped to Durham. We are <br />9 <br />