Agenda - 04-19-2016 - 6-c - Renewal of Food and Organic Waste Collection and Composting Contract

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1] / ORANGE COUNTY REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR FOOD WASTE AND ORGANIC WASTE COLLECTION. The County of Orange, N.C. on behalf of its Department of Solid Waste Management(hereinafter"Cou is seeking proposals for collection and disposal services for the County's Food Waste and Organic Waste Collection from selected- businesses or other locations in Orange County, North Cem|ina, k}u|uding participating local governmants and public school systems. --}. !NTRODDCQON' BACKGB0UN0,AND POTENTIAL PROGRAM CHANGES- Orange County began experimenting with commercial food waste diversion In the mid 1990s, working with two |uua| oma|!-ooa|ep|Qfarmern1oouUe:1foodvvamtm/noDna/ewnastuVnsntoakda(ow/|nca1cl\ye|ementa,y schools for cooking and feeding to their hogs.These programs were very constrained because they could ecoepton/yfopdwaaVa' n not wet paper or any other'organic waste', only that suitable for cooking and feeding to pigs. Both hog farmers stopped this collection by 1998 for economic reasons. In 19-99 the County nacted with a private collector to collect and compost a wider variety of commercial organic Waste that Included not only food but-also other materials such as wet paper ancrtioral waste that were-readily compestobk*. Under the current contract material Is currently collected from a variety of • commercial sources in Orange County,transported to a composting operation and converted to compost. Over time, the County * include a -cif higher volume stores, Institutions-and multiple stops on the UNC campus Including collection of lab animal-bedding. The lower mit for collecting Is-sat~^two tons per month per locatiOn.''`~'~g~~~ ~~~`'''~^~ '~ ~ -` ^ ^~`'~r . week and-receptacles are washed out as th Uncted Count-y staff identified contacted, recruited and educatedthe waste generators, established the program and respondS to complaints about product quality, /\xof March 2811/hons are 31 customers and collection of UNC lab animal bedding by the County has been eliminated,The County hopes to expand to other locations around the County In the future. A. Program-Data: The following- table provides a breakdown of the approximate-wnqourt of organic waste collected by Orange County's current Food-Waste and Organic Waste Collection program from approximately 31 sites Including grocery ato[na, full service restaurants, institutions, retirement homes.and other commercial enterprises. The County intends to-provide organics collection service to at least-theourrentcUont-baue and wishes to expand the service to-include more stops-. ' • The reporting periods in the chart below are based on Countys Fiscal Year(FY). The FlscalYear Is July 1 through June 30. for example FY084U =July 1,20OQ though June 3O,2U1U. FisuaiYoar Tons-Collected 07-08 t76057 08F09 1.702,00 • 0940 1.782,62 1041 (July ICY—January 1i) 1,204.20 � B. Considerations for the Future: The decision to make the following changes to Cou Waste and Or anic Waste program Is per County's discretion, and is dopendant upon approval of the FY 11-12 budget. . 3 •