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to ensure adherence to the County's mandate to recycle wood, metal and cardboard as well as provide adequate, accessible outdoor storage space for recyclables to be collected. The County Solid Waste Department regularly receives lists of permitted building projects so they can ensure a solid waste plan is filed, inspect job sites and provide education and enforcement of the aspects of the R.RMO. Solid waste staff from Carrboro and Chapel Hill continue to inspect dumpsters and rolloff containers under their respective jurisdictions' control for the presence of regulated materials and routinely tag such containers to prevent their collection until such materials are removed. Tagging reduces the landfill tip fee penalties the Towns may incur. Solid Waste Convenience Center staff educate, urge and direct the public to separate regulated materials at the Convenience Center sites, as the trucks delivering waste from the sites to the landfill are treated similarly to any other non-residential truck and routinely penalized for presence of regulated materials in their loads. UNC employs its own staff to educate contractors, building operators, students and faculty and police those containers under its jurisdiction to keep them free of regulated materials or they too incur penalties. Thus RRMO enforcement is equitable among jurisdictions and the private sector. In general, the various Towns also support the County-wide recycling program by distributing recycling bins from their offices, notifying the County of new residences slated to receive collection, providing recycling information to new residents as they move in and giving recycling schedules to all residents along with the jurisdiction's own solid waste information. Each Town's web site also has a link to the recycling program web page. In 2004-OS some of the various governments in the Triangle J Council of Governments including Chatham, Durham, Orange and Wake Counties, undertook a year long investigation of to determine if any county within a 100 mile radius of a nominal central point in the region, and irrespective of state boundaries, was willing to host a regional landfill to accept waste from the various counties in the Triangle region in exchange for an investment in constructing such a facility. The investigation, led on Triangle J's members' behalf, by an engineering consulting firm, deternvned there were no willing hosts nor any land that any County or other agency in the region was willing to make available for a regional landfill. Two offers, one from a public agency and one from a private landholder were investigated with no positive result. 23