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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May 20, 2008 Action Agenda Item No. (o ' e SUBJECT: Recycling Processing and Collection Program Expansion Details and Implementation Plan DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): Attachment 1 -May 20, 2008 Staff Memo Attachment 2 -March 6, 2008 BOCC Meeting Agenda Item Attachment 3 -February 6, 2008 Meeting Information Item INFORMATION CONTACT: Gayle Wilson 968-2885 PURPOSE: To request the Board endorse the components of the FY 2008-09 Solid Waste Management budget relevant to implementing the transition to commingled bottle and can collection, program expansion and the proposed. timeline for implementation, pending approval of the FY 2008-09 Solid Waste Enterprise Fund budget. BACKGROUND: The recycling program can improve its collection efficiency and collect more materials from more sources in FY 2008-09 without expansion of staff or an increase this year in 3-R Fees by making a transition from collecting, processing and marketing source-separated cans and bottles to collecting and marketing those materials mixed together (commingled containers). The synergies from those efficiency improvements will enable other expansions including rural corrugated cardboard collection, expansion of commercial collections, adding new plastics at drop off sites and baling of residential mixed paper. All projected program costs can be managed within currently proposed budget. At its March 6 meeting, the Board received a staff presentation that showed a preliminary estimate of costs and benefits from this transition and authorized staff to create a detailed transition plan. The details of the transition plan, costs and benefits are contained in the attached staff memo. The plan includes: • Reconfiguration of current recycling processing area to manage and receive commingled containers; • Expansion of the Urban and Rural Curbside Recycling collection to include corrugated cardboard; • Expansion of the drop-off recycling program to include additional source separated plastics; • Changing the Commercial and Drop-off recycling programs from source-separated to commingled containers;