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via email. If, as a surrogate calculation we were to include an extra 1,400 tons of waste as generated in Orange County to the 88,060 calculated by the State as landfilled from Orange County, it would push the waste reduction rate down to 46.9%, still our highest rate ever recorded since we began the calculation in 1995. If we were to further assume other unmeasured tons have `escaped` the system, for each 1,600 tons that escapes measure, waste reduction rate goes down another 1 %; another 3,200 tons would have had to escape measurement to get as low at the previous record 45% waste reduction that the County achieved in 2003. Summary of Chapters 2-4 Orange County Solid Waste. Management program changes in recycling and landfill operations including waste reduction efforts were noted in the bulleted, annualized list at the start of the summary. They are detailed in Chapel 2, Table 2a. Table 2b summarizes work by individual jurisdictions. Additional details of work by jurisdictions is included in Appendix G. Chapter 3 describes the prior planning efforts in more detail and highlights recycling program performance over the past three years, showing an increased tonnage once the mixed paper was added during 2006-07. Cost per person and cost per pound for collecting and processing hazardous waste have FALLEN as more tonnage has been collected in what the County terms its Toxic Reduction Improvements Program or TRIP. Future program financing will include the 3-R fee, holding landfill tipping fees as low as possible, given the law requiring a $2 per ton additional payment to the state, beginning in 2009, from every North Carolina Landfill and transfer station. Future disposal options will continue to include the County-owned C&D landfill and, until 2011, aCounty-owned and operated MSW landfill. After that facility is full, the County will build a transfer station to ship waste as the main component of MSW management. As part of the transfer station operation, the County will also negotiate a contract with anout-of-County landfill to accept MSW from Orange County. Future solid waste financing options may include borrowing funds to close and cap the current landfill as well as to construct the transfer station. We expect to continue to use predominantly the tipping fees along with some recyclables sale revenue and other small income sources to finance the landfill operation as well as provide some supplemental funding to the recycling effort. Chapter 4 shows the plan approval process including the public involvement element and getting final approval from the Board of Orange County Commissioners. 10