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10 <br />The Recommended Recycling Budget for FY 90 -91 includes the <br />following services: <br />a. The basic recycling programs include the curbside program, <br />the drop -off program, commercial glass collection, commercial <br />cardboard collection, community education, salaries, fringes, <br />postage, and other expenses related to running the programs. <br />Total cost of this basic program is ............ ..$342,510 <br />b. The recommended additions to the basic program for FY 90 -91 <br />include apartment house recycling, mixed paper recycling at <br />drop off sites, expansion of commercial glass recycling, <br />plastics and tin cans at drop off sites, compost demonstration <br />projects, and additional outreach through a semi -- annual <br />newsletter ................. .......................$139,635 <br />Details of Additions <br />Multi- family building recycling will be added at fifteen large <br />apartment complexes throughout Orange County. These will be <br />serviced on a contract basis. Expected collections for the -2,500 <br />units to be served are 110 tons for the ten months of the year of <br />operation. This assumes an average of 9 lbs. per unit per month. <br />(Below the average collected in ongoing apartment house collection <br />programs operating in other areas.) <br />SUMMARY: Apartment house recycling program <br />COST: $35,280 (estimated based on discussions with potential <br />contractors) <br />REVENUES: $0 (assuming contractor will pick up all materials and <br />receive revenue) <br />Commercial glass recycling program established during FY 89 -90 will <br />be expanded from the present 25 up to 30 sites. Contract basis. <br />Expected collections 240 tons per year. <br />SUMMARY: Commercial glass recycling program <br />COST: Additional cost $3,456 <br />REVENUES: $0 (revenue goes to contractor) <br />Mixed Paper will be added at the drop -off sites and collected by <br />a Town of Chapel Hill Sanitation front - loading truck. A loading <br />dock and trailer will be used to collect and transport the mixed <br />paper to the shingle plant in Goldsboro. This is expected to <br />collect 525 tons per year from 18 planned publicly operated sites. <br />SUMMARY: Mixed paper collection at 18 drop off sites <br />COST: $63,229 (includes $29,450 capital costs for dumpsters, <br />loading dock and trailer) <br />REVENUES: $9,477 ($18 per ton) <br />