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Solid Waste Goal & Results FY 2012/13 Category State Orange Cty Reduction goal 40% 61% Reduction achieved (1991-92 baseline) -12% 58% Waste landfilled per capita (1991-92) 2,140 2,720 Waste landfilled per capita (2012-13) 1,800 1,140 Solid Waste Current Initiatives • Conversion to single stream recycling • Cart based recycling � 1/3 of rural customers - 2012-13 • Walnut Grove Ch. Rd. solid waste convenience center - 2012-13 • Concept plan for second convenience center - 2013 • Closure of lined landfill - June 30, 2013 • Municipal solid waste to Durham Transfer Station for 2013-14 • Establish additional internal goals for waste reduction/recycling for 2013 Solid Waste Future Initiatives • Urban curbside converting to roll carts in June 2014 • Next � 1/2 of current rural curbside recycling to carts in fall 2014 • Continue modernization of Solid Waste Convenience Centers: — Eubanks Road plan in progress, construction projected to begin FY 2014-15 — Walnut Grove district site expansion completed May 2014 • Continue to consider alternatives to Durham City Transfer Station • Develop Interlocal Agreement on solid waste with Towns (ongoing) • Evaluate commercial recycling expansion in 2015-16 • Develop formalized `buy recycled' policy; paper use reduction goal for County government • Achieve 61% waste reduction goal and set new higher goal. Blair Pollack said the planning for Eubanks Road is going well, and staff just received approval from the town of Chapel Hill to work though their administrative process rather than going before the council, which should accelerate things. He said to ignore the negative sign in the waste reduction. He said the waste reduction went up. He said the state had 12 percent less waste per person landfilled, which is the metric that is used. He noted that the County has much less waste then most other places in terms of waste landfilled per capita, and this includes all types of waste. Blair Pollack said he wanted to clarify the discussion about pounds recycled per capita, where the County came in sixth versus being first in waste reduction. He said departmental opinion is that measuring how much less you put in the ground is really the key measure of success, and that has been the goal. He said the pounds recycled per capita are important, but it does not capture some of the efforts. Commissioner porosin asked if there is any measure of how much of the material going into the single stream is not recyclable. Blair Pollack said there are two components to that. He said when this goes to the materials recovery center, their out throw rate is about 6 or 7 percent. He said it goes up when you switch from multiple sorted to single stream, but the increased tonnage tends to trump the increased residue.