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6 -z9 -9�2 <br />Garbage Index <br />• Average number of landfill acres Orange County uses per year at its present rate: 2 <br />• Number of usable acres in remaining section of landfill south of Eubanks Rd.: 25 <br />• Year that the current landfill will be full at present rate of consumption: 2006 <br />• Amount that garbage going into the landfill (excluding ash) decreased from 1990 to <br />1991: 11.5% <br />• Amount it will have decreased according to projections for 1992: 25% <br />• Percentage of waste reduction which is mandatory by 2001: 40% <br />• Number of years Site 2 - the smallest site - will last at current rate of landfill <br />consumption: 253 <br />• Number of years Site 11 - the largest - will last: 574 <br />• Number of years the LOG staff (i.e. the Chapel Hill Public Works Dept.) has <br />recommended as the minimum projected lifetime for the next landfill : 20 <br />• Site size in acres that the LOG staff instructed the Landfill Search Committee find: <br />300 -500 <br />• Percentage of front -end waste reduction that Davie County achieved in 2 years: 52% <br />• Average percentage of materials recovery in the top 17 waste - saving municipalities in <br />U.S. as of 1989: 40% <br />• Number of these with mandatory recycling: 13 <br />• Number of citizens who spoke at the LOG solid waste public hearing who favored <br />source reduction and materials recovery in favor of refuse derived fuel, end -of stream <br />volume reduction and spending $100,000+ on consultants: 22 <br />• Number who spoke in favor of volume reduction and hiring consultants: 0 <br />• Number who spoke for source reduction, recycling, no consultants, etc. at the June 23 <br />Chapel Hill Town Council meeting: 11 <br />• Number who spoke in favor of LOG's plan to study RDF technologies, volume <br />reduction, and to hire consultants: 0 <br />• Town Council vote: 7 -2 in favor of LOG's plan <br />• Number of tunes the word "consultant" appears in the first LOG staff plan draft: 45 <br />• Number of tunes "source reduction" appears: 2 <br />• Number of kilowatt hours saved by substituting a ton of scrap paper for virgin paper: <br />10,000 <br />• Number of kilowatt hours burning a ton of scrap paper will generate: 600 <br />Amount in tons being landfilled * excluding UNC ash <br />89 -90 <br />90 -91 <br />91 -92 projected <br />"Z700 <br />88,300 <br />75 000 <br />Site <br />2 <br />9 <br />11 <br />17 <br />Estimated <br />506 <br />598 <br />1148 <br />633 <br />usable acreage <br />Estimated We <br />253 <br />299 <br />574 <br />316 <br />without waste <br />reduction <br />(at 2 acres per r.) <br />Compiled by: Mark Marcoplos <br />