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Memorandum <br />To: Solid Waste Plan Work Group <br />From: Blair Pollock, Solid Waste Planner <br />Subject: Planning Process Update and Decision Making Points <br />Date: March 26, 2008. UPDATED from SWAB MEETING 4/3/08. All revisions to <br />actual March 26 memo shown in ARIAL BOLD <br />This memorandum serves as a cover briefmg for the two attached technical papers from RRSI <br />and Olver Incorporated on commerciaUnon-residential waste collection options and approaches. <br />It also provides guidance on issues facing the Work Group and serves to recap some of the work <br />accomplished to date in developing an integrated solid waste plan. <br />Cover Briefm~ <br />Agenda Item #2 (NOTE: Item 1 was overview presentation, no attachment here) Options for <br />Commercial Waste and Recycling Collection. Jim Frey of 1ZRSI presents a set of options for <br />collecting recyclables and waste from the non-residential sector. Options were developed by staff <br />and RRSI with input from focus groups held in October 2007 and presented in an electronic <br />survey to all businesses and other non-residential entities in Orange County (and Chapel Hill part <br />of Durham County) administered during January, February and March. Options include: <br />• Mandatory recycling with business' choice of licensed recycling and waste haulers, No <br />County role in collection, just enforcement. <br />• County, with Towns, selects franchise haulers for waste and/or recycling. Use of <br />franchise recycling haulers) is optional; other haulers may be selected but franchisee(s) <br />must offer recycling. No County role in collection, just billing, education and <br />enforcement. __ <br />• County-provided recycling with choice of licensed waste hauler. County administers <br />recycling fees based on size and intensity of business. <br />• County-provided recycling and franchise haulers for waste collection with fees based on <br />service levels. <br />The commerciaUnon-residential sector is the sector with the fewest publicly provided recycling <br />services, thus the greatest opportunities for additional recycling tonnage to be collected. <br />Currently the County mandates recycling of corrugated cardboard, scrap metal and clean wood <br />but does not collect those. Generator. must manage them as separated items for recycling. County <br />provides recycling program services to only part of the bar and restaurant sector for cans, bottles <br />and paper and, for a smaller sub-sector, food waste recycling. The Work Group is considering <br />the means of expanding collection in the commercial sector as a key purpose of the March 26 <br />meeting. For further consideration, as a corollary need, are ways to control waste flow through <br />either franchising or licensing with a public destination to be designated as a way to exert more <br />environmental scrutiny and fiscal control over solid waste. <br />26 <br />