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scale and efficient routing of services, while reducing market choice at least until the franchise is rebid. These reports will be followed by technical reports on integrating the plan and financing. That will result in development of an overall draft plan to meet the next three year planning cycle update due in June 2009. Construction and Demolition Waste After establishment of the Regulated Recyclable Material Ordinance (]Z12M0) in 2002- 03, the County, in 2005, opened a new C&D landfill cell of 13 acres purchased next to its current site. Adjoining property owner Duke University provides the buffer zone, a unique arrangement in North Carolina. The RR1VI0 prohibits landfiiling clean wood, corrugated cardboard and scrap metal and requires they be recycled. It also regulates construction and demolition activities by requiring a solid waste plan in which builders must stipulate how the regulated materials will be managed for recycling. It further regulates haulers to require them to separate these regulated materials or haul to a mixed waste processor as a condition of their local hauling license. It also provides for certification of mixed C&D waste processors to ensure they are separating recyclable. materials as an alternative to source-separation. This C&D cell was originally projected to last 13 years at use rates projected based on diverting the regulated,materials which were about 30% of C&D. Due to instituting the RRMO; relatively high rates for C&D disposal compared to surrounding alternatives and availability of mixed C&D waste processing options as alternatives to source separation of the regulated materials, the cell is now projected to last eighteen years. C&D waste landfilled at Orange County has dropped by an average of 47% from about 30,500 tons a year prior to RRMO implementation to an average of 16,100 tons a year since full implementation. Overall C&D generation in the County has remained fairly steady, but the destinations have shifted from the Orange. County landfill to a combination of the Orange County Landfill, source-separated recycling at Orange County, mixed waste processing facilities and other. C&D landfills that accepted materials free of the regulated materials. The table below compares C&D destinations in the year before RItMO's passage with last year, three years after full implementation and staffing of RRMO. Orange County expects a further drastic drop in waste tonnage directed to this facility now that the State regulators have determined anything that is not `pure' C&D, coming from a construction site, must be placed in a lined. MSW landfill. Orange County estimates that is over 75% of the weight received at its C&D landfill that must now be diverted to MSW. Table ES-3 Tonnages & Destinations of C&D from Orange Co 2001-02 v. 2006-07 Year Landfilled in- Landfilled out- Clean wood & Mixed waste Total Coon of-Coon scra metal rocessing 2001-02 27,792 8,134 -- -- 35,863 2006-07 16,546 349 2,305 12,436 (inbound to 31,636 facilities) before processing 6