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Attachment C <br /> OENR Contract 4119 <br /> Detailed Description of Proposed Grant Project <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 /> Project A This project is for collecting roofing shingles at the Orange County landfill for <br /> reUclin into nto paving material rather than landfilling them, as is currently 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 of non-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 '/2 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 />