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INFORMATION ITEM <br />Memorandum <br />To: Bonnie Hammersley, County Manager <br />From: Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste Management Director <br />Subject: Implementation of Rural Area Recycling Roll Carts— Information Report <br />Date: August 18, 2014 <br />This memo outlines the planned approach and projected timeline to deploy 95- gallon roll carts <br />in the current rural curbside recycling service area. <br />Deployment of over 18,000 95- gallon roll carts for the urban recycling program, which occurred <br />in June and July of this year, is now complete and operational modifications to the program to <br />ensure efficiencies are ongoing. Once the urban program implementation was complete, staff <br />had scheduled to begin the planning process for deploying roll carts in the rural recycling <br />service area. <br />As part of the FY 2014 -15 capital budget, the Board authorized funding for the purchase of up <br />to 7,000 roll carts for use in the unincorporated (rural) area curbside recycling program <br />($378,000 - $303,000 to finance minus a $75,000 reimbursable grant from NCDENR). With <br />approximately 13,700 residences now eligible for this program and based on route audits and <br />other feedback, the estimate of 7,000 carts is based on approximately 50% of eligible residents <br />possibly having interest in converting from use of the current 18 gallon orange bins to 95 gallon <br />roll carts. Of course not all residents recycle and many use convenience centers at least <br />periodically. <br />Per BOCC direction, residents at their discretion will be given the option to convert from bins to <br />carts or continue use of their bins. The recycling division will provide carts where they are <br />desired and collect recyclables from residences utilizing both those carts and the existing bins in <br />the current recycling collection service area at the current points of collection. Near term <br />future expansion of areas identified previously of approximately 1,600 residences that can be <br />serviced with existing resources will also be included later in the year contingent on responses <br />received from the current service area and available resources. <br />In order for the Solid Waste Department to determine how many carts to order and where they <br />are to be deployed, the department plans a series of queries in the service area, followed by <br />compilation of the data to determine how many carts to order. Following the order, production <br />