2016-282-E Solid Waste - Judy D. Brooks Contract Amendment for food waste collection

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DocuSign Envelope ID:20877915-9004-438F-AI77-54177939AE44 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"County") 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 Carolina, -including participating local governments and public school systems. I. INTRODUCTION, BACKGROUND,AND POTENTIAL PROGRAM CHANGES- Orange County began experimenting with commercial food waste diversion In the mid 1990s, working with two local small-scale pig farmers to collect food waste from a few restaurants and a few local city elementary schools for cooking and feeding to their hogs.These programs were very constrained because they could accept only food waste, not wet paper or any other'organic waste', only that suitable for cooking and feeding to pig s, Both hog farmers stopped this collection by 1998 for economic reasons. In 1999, the Co-unty contracted with a private collector to coliect and compost a wider variety of-commercial organic waste that Included not only food but-also other materials such as wet paper and'floral waste that were,readily compqstable. 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 expanded the program,to include a:variety-of higher volume restaurants,grocery stores, institutions-and multiple stops on the UNC campus Including collection of lab animal- edding. The lower limit for collecting Is-sat at two tons per month per location.Average collection rate Is three times per week and-receptacles are washed out as they'are collected. County staff Identified,contacted, recruited and educated'the waste generators, established the program and responds to complaints about product quality. As of March 2011-there 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-amount of organic waste collected by Orange County's current Food Waste and Organic Waste Collection program from approximately 31 sites Including grocery stores, full service restaurants, institutions, -retirement homes and other commercial enterprises. The County intends to-provide organics collection.service to at least the current client base and wishes to expand the service to.include more stops. The reporting periods in the chart below are based on County's Fiscal Year(FY). The Fiscal-Year Is July I through June 30, for example FY 09-10 =July 1,2009 though June 30,2010. Fiscal-Year Tons-Collected 07-08 f,760.57 08-09 1,702,00 09-10 1,782,62 10-11 (July 10=-January 11) 1,204.20 B.Considerations for the Future: The decision to make the following changes to County's Food Waste and Organic Waste program Is per County's discretion, and is dependant upon approval'of the FY 11-12 budget. 3