2014-168 Solid Waste - Department of Environment and Natural Resources for Roll Cart Purchase $75,000

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ATTACHMENT C DENR CONTRACT NO.5833 Materials Collected: Orange County now collects aluminum and steel cans including empty aerosol cans, clean pie pans and aluminum foil,all plastic bottles#147,glass bottles and jars,all types of clean dry paper including newspaper and glossy magazines, office paper,junk mail,gable top cartons,aseptic packaging and corrugated cardboard(which is limited to ten boxes of 3'x 3'). We plan to continue providing collection of all these materials and may be able to add spiral cans(like those for `Pringles')in the near future due to market acceptance. In the future as the cart program is expanded,we may,depending upon markets,be able to add a variety of other non-bottle plastics especially the olefins#2(HDPE),#4(LDPE)and#5(PP) and perhaps thermoform clear PET as sorting technology at MRFs enables that. Inclusion of any new materials will also be market-dependent. Measurement Plan: We will purchase all carts with imbedded RFID tags and intend to purchase the appropriate RFID reading devices on our trucks to track program performance. Our initial intent is to use this technology to measure overall route or sub-route participation only,not individual household participation,though we may use individual household data to gather route participation more accurately than we do now. At present we only measure biweekly set-out data. We hope to be able to use the RFID data to better target future education and outreach to those areas that are low participation. We have not developed specific strategies nor determined if we will narrowly target only non-participating or minimally participating households rather than agglomerate data to the route or at least street level. We have concerns about individual privacy and are sensitive to reported reaction against the use of RFID on waste and recycling routes elsewhere. We measure and record each curbside recycling truck's weight from each rural route as it comes over the scales at the landfill before dumping at the pad for quality control and loading for shipment to MRF. Each day's weights are tracked and recorded to compare route productivity over time. Route weight data and set out rates are tracked. We will continue to do that using the current scale data corroborated with any useful RFID data received once we install readers on trucks. For about ten years we have tracked collection data for each route by set out and tonnage.A copy of this historical data has been submitted with this application as Attachment 1. This data indicates set out rates and tonnages for FY 12-13 along the ten rural routes we serve. Overall,the biweekly set out rate averages about 40%of all eligible households and the average annual pounds per household at the curb has been around 270 for the past three years,since mixed paper was added. So there is well-measured baseline data by route against which to evaluate future program changes. In January 2013,we conducted a month-long participation study of 1400 households along four rural routes,noting how many unique homes set out at least once during the measurement period. We found an overall participation rate of 57%with a range from 44%up to 73%. A copy of this study has been submitted with this application as Attachment 2. Materials from this curbside recycling program are combined with materials from other recycling efforts including drop-off,commercial,multifamily,government building and urban curbside recycling programs as they are sent to market. We receive scale tickets for each load of material that is delivered to the MRF, and we also receive monthly statements from Sonoco on materials delivered. 3