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food waste containers are also drawing flies and bees that we are actively working to address by applying powdered lime at the end of each day, which seems to be helping. • The single textiles receptacle filled within a few days so staff located a second receptacle. • Plastic film receptacles were originally too small and filled up too quickly. Larger receptacles were obtained and are working well. • As mentioned above, center attendants are stationed at the compactors virtually full time to maintain compactor hopper capacity to allow for the continuous flow of customers and therefore need shelter from the sun /weather. The umbrellas currently in use are inadequate. • Given the large size of the center, the many services provided, the need to clean up spills and litter, the distance between the four MSW /recycling compactors and the bulky waste compactor that require frequent activation, the need to closely monitor the compactors, the need to haul unacceptable items from the salvage shed for disposal and the necessity to oversee and advise customers to follow materials separation rules and limit contamination, the current two full time center attendants are unable to adequately maneuver around the center to monitor the various recycling and disposal stations and to assist customers. The distance is too great and the center attendants are simply physically incapable of scurrying around the center to effectively provide the necessary customer service and satisfactorily overseeing operations. Some means of internal transportation would seem necessary. • Currently there are two permanent county staff assigned to the center and one contract employee provided by our household hazardous waste (HHW) contractor. Given the afore stated necessity of the two center attendants stationing near the compactors and the size of the center, cooperation of the contractor has been obtained in that their employee will assist in monitoring services near the HHW area such as motor oil, batteries, food waste, etc. If this contract employee were to be replaced by a permanent Sanitation Division employee center customer service, maintenance, enforcement and supervision could be expanded and improved (and existing supplemental staffing assistance eliminated). Otherwise supplemental staffing by temporary employees may be necessary indefinitely to oversee the site on busier days. Increased Efficiencies /Usage Plastic Film - Between 6 -8 40 gallon bags of plastic film (a newly added recycling material) are collected weekly. Electronics — An additional trailer of electronics is being collected weekly at the new site (5 /week versus 6 /week) Cardboard — The new cardboard compactor is collected and taken to market every two weeks. Previously, the ten 8 cu /yd. cardboard dumpsters were emptied and hauled to market 3 times /week. We have seen that the average monthly tonnage of cardboard going to market is about the same but the average load weight to market has gone from about 3 tons per truck trip (average) to Durham paper market to almost 5 tons per tuck trip (average) to Durham. This seems to be a very good return on investment in terms of fuel usage, carbon emissions and wear and tear on the trucks. Single Stream — The single stream material compactor is collected and taken to market once /week. Previously, the four 25 cu /yd. containers were each emptied 2 -3 times /week. Our tonnage is very similar to the old WG tonnages (20 -30 tons per month) but even at this early stage at the new facility we can see a slow but continuous uptick in volume coming in. Average tons per load hauled to Eubanks Road processing center was 1.76 /tons /load and currently (through use of compactor) is 6.1 tons /load. 3