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County of Orange, NC <br />WASTE ACCEPTANCE <br />RFP #5183 <br />Upon entering the off - loading area, participants will be instructed to remain in their vehicle. <br />Clean Harbors' personnel will inspect the waste at the participant's vehicle, and decide whether <br />or not to accept before removing it from the vehicle. <br />Segregation and Packing <br />In the event that a participant has an excessive <br />amount of waste for disposal, or waste suspected of <br />being generated from locations other than <br />households, County personnel will be advised. The <br />excessive or unusual waste shall only be accepted per <br />Orange County's approval. <br />All containers will be checked for labels and <br />participants will be asked to confirm contents. If <br />there is no label and the participant can identify the <br />containers' contents, the identity will be written on <br />the container and transferred to the handling tables <br />for processing. <br />Unknown waste will be taken to an area designated <br />for fingerprint testing. Management of unknown <br />waste is described in more detail later. <br />If deemed acceptable, Clean Harbors' personnel will remove the household hazardous waste <br />from the participant's vehicle. Most materials are placed onto the screening tables for <br />segregation. Latex Paint, will be taken direct to the bulking area. <br />Household hazardous waste will be segregated into one of the following categories: acids, bases, <br />oxidizers, pesticides, aerosols, latex paint, oil -based paint, solvents, reactives, unknown materials <br />and non - hazardous /non - regulated materials. Non - recyclable, non - regulated solid waste will be <br />rejected or placed into garbage dumpsters for disposal at the County's expense. <br />The appropriate packaging method for each container is determined in accordance with container <br />size, type, hazardous characteristics, and quantity of waste. We have detailed our packaging <br />guidelines in Section 8 of our response. <br />Managing Unknowns <br />The safe and economical disposal of unknown chemicals is an ever - present problem for <br />household hazardous waste collection programs. Questioning the participant can identify most <br />unlabeled containers; however, occasionally a participant will simply not know what they have. <br />Clean Harbors' Project Managers are specially trained to perform unknown characterizations on- <br />site using a variety of analytical test methods. Only personnel that have passed Unknowns <br />Training with a score of 80% or higher are allowed to perform a fingerprint analysis. <br />Company Confidential 24 www.cleanharbors.com <br />