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• <br /> 15 <br /> County,Carteret County,Cleveland County, Hertford County, Nash County,and Pender County <br /> Given more time staff might be able to identify others. <br /> 35. Has Orange County examined Catawba County, NC and their incentive program? <br /> Orange County staff has investigated Catawba County's approach to unincorporated area <br /> curbside recycling and is reasonably familiar with their program. We have the following <br /> observations. <br /> Catawba has a single exclusive franchised waste and recycling hauler with a ten year contract <br /> serving the whole County with residential trash and recycling collection,commercial waste <br /> collection and Construction and Demolition waste collection.Of the 33,600 residences in <br /> unincorporated County,about 14,000 or 42%subscribe to waste collection and 97%of those are <br /> reported to use the recycling program at least monthly which is the minimum to be considered a <br /> recycler Those using recycling get the lower monthly trash collection rate of$18.88 including <br /> the cart.Setting out the recycling cart at least once a month constitutes program use, <br /> irrespective of contents.Those who don't recycle at the curb pay$24.33 per month for trash <br /> collection including a cart. <br /> Catawba County contracts Solid Waste Convenience Center operations to Republic who charges <br /> a fee of$1.75 per bag of residential waste delivered to their Convenience Centers that provides <br /> partial support to the system and they also charge for bulky items at$17.50 per small pick up or <br /> $26.25 per large pickup truck. During conversion to recycling carts last year,the County in <br /> conjunction with Republic provided a broad variety of outreach including electronic media, <br /> presentations,web page and PSAs in local papers. Republic put out their educational materials <br /> when they converted to carts for the schedule changes and information about what to recycle. <br /> They achieved a recycling rate at the curb of 239 pounds per eligible household last year <br /> Orange County unincorporated area curbside recycling rate was about 250 pounds per <br /> household among all households, not just those calculated as participating. If only the 7,800 <br /> households considered as participating were counted,the rate is 440 pounds per household <br /> 36. Is there research on what the cost per household will be for an opt-out type service? <br /> Please see#8 above <br /> 37 How many people use the convenience centers for recycling versus using the existing curbside <br /> recycling service? <br /> There are approximately 20,000 households in the unincorporated area and they represent <br /> almost all users for conventional recycling of paper,cans, bottles and cardboard.The number of <br /> urban single family or apartment dwellers using the SWCCs for recycling is assumed around 10% <br /> in this estimate as they have access to curbside or on-site recycling and more convenient 24 <br /> hour unstaffed drop-off sites. <br /> Thus.of those 13,700 residences(at the time of the survey was conducted)that have access to <br /> curbside recycling an estimated 57%or^7,800 use the service at least once a month. If 90%of <br /> all the remaining households eligible recycle instead at convenience centers,that means 5,300 <br /> of those and if 50%of the remaining households that do not have access to curbside recycling <br /> recycle at the SWCCs,then another 3,200 households recycle at the SWCCs. Urban users are <br /> more difficult to estimate. <br /> 8 <br />