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® Solid Waste Convenience Centers and Dropoff Sites: As a corollary to making a more <br />efficient rural residential waste collection system, RRS prepared a technical report on <br />convenience centers and dropoff sites issued in May 2007. Various options on how to <br />manage convenience centers included limiting the number of centers, charging a fee for <br />solid waste and providing more recycling opportunities at the centers. Along with this <br />was a proposal to close one or two of the least used unstaffed recycling dropoff sites to <br />improve collection efficiency. Initiating collection of corrugated cardboard at the curb <br />could further obviate the need for the extensive dropoff site system now in place. <br />Charging waste disposal fees at the convenience centers could make rural residential <br />waste collection at the house more efficient and economically attractive to the residents <br />than the currently perceived `free' convenience center system that an estimated 70% of <br />households use. Rising gasoline prices and concerns about increased carbon <br />consumption may add to this attractiveness. Adding more services such as hazardous <br />waste and rigid, bullcy plastic recycling could have the contrary effect of making the <br />centers more popular, but having fewer centers could make the trips more infrequent. The <br />Work Group has made no recommendation on these matters yet; they are pending as part <br />of the plan development. <br />The table on the next page belew summarizes the status of various solid waste management <br />issues described above and issues that remain pending and suggests areas where the Work Group <br />will face recommendation to make the draft plan complete. Items shown in ARIAL BOLD were <br />revised by SWAB in their review of the interim plan on April 3, 2008, <br />29 <br />