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55 <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 />