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18 <br /> Orange County, NC <br /> Financial Plan & Rate Study for Solid Waste Enterprise Fund SCS ENGINEERS <br /> Hillsborough; convenience stores; and gas stations. OCR also collects recyclable material twice <br /> weekly from the Orange County schools (a service started in 2010) and Chapel Hill-Carrboro <br /> City schools (2011) for a fee. Contracts with the school systems and other municipal sources <br /> account for a portion of the revenue into the Solid Waste System. <br /> 1 .3.3 OCR Recyclable Material Processing and Marketing <br /> All collected recyclable material is consolidated at the recycling area of the Orange County <br /> Landfill. The recycling area consists of a large concrete pad(about 15,000 square feet)that is <br /> partially covered upon which collected recyclables are dumped from the collection vehicles. <br /> Waste Industries, the private hauler contracted to collect recyclable material curbside from urban <br /> residences, delivers the recyclables to the recycling area at the Landfill. Prior to June 2012 a <br /> two-stream program strategy was employed in which fiber was transferred and sold to Sonoco in <br /> Durham, whereas commingled cans and bottles were transferred and sold to FCR/ReCommunity <br /> in Greensboro. Beginning in July 2012, the material has been delivered to the recycling area as a <br /> single-stream, inspected by County staff for contaminants, and loaded into walking floor trailers <br /> and transported to the Sonoco MRF in Raleigh where it is processed and sold. Electronics are <br /> transported to GEEP in Durham,NC, and rigid plastics are transported to Blueridge Plastics in <br /> Eden,NC; Sonoco in Raleigh,NC; or other plastics recyclers in the region depending on market <br /> value at the time of discard. <br /> There is one (1) County employee that manages the quality control and loading of single stream <br /> material. Two (2) County employees transport single stream and rigid plastic to their respective <br /> destinations. The electronics recycling vendor currently collects the County-prepared electronic <br /> recycling material at the landfill property and transports the material to their property for further <br /> processing and sale to end users. <br /> 1 .4 SOLID WASTE PROGRAMS FEE <br /> The County charges all eligible properties an annual fee of$107.00 for the solid waste and <br /> recycling program services provided by the Department. This Solid Waste Program Fee is <br /> charged to cover the costs of collecting, handling, and disposing and/or recycling of the County's <br /> solid waste and recyclable material. The fee, which was implemented in 2015, is included with <br /> the annual tax bill levied on approximately 61,000 improved properties within the County. As <br /> noted in Section 1.1, one of the purposes of this Study is to estimate the appropriate Fee amount <br /> over the 5-year planning period to cover the costs of the County's solid waste and recycling <br /> programs. A 3-R fee and Waste and Recycling Center fee were implemented as user fees, both of <br /> which have since been replaced by the Solid Waste Programs Fee. <br /> 1 .5 COLLECTED RECYCLABLE MATERIAL TONNAGE AND <br /> REVENUE <br /> Exhibit 6 shows the last five fiscal years of recyclable material weight data and revenue. The <br /> data shows that recycling revenues in the County have been decreasing despite increased <br /> collection of recyclable material. This is primarily due to a decrease in the strength of the <br /> commodities market. <br /> 8 <br />