2018-275-E Solid Waste - Judy Brooks contracting

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 7796CD94- 342E- 40D0- B7C3- A2B604F926B4 GRANGE COUNTY Department of Solid waste Management The service area includes Orange County North Carolina, Chapel dill, Carrboro, Hillsborough and other designated locations in the unincorporated areas of the County and Town of Chapel Hill businesses, and multi - family units in Durham County. The Contractor must be able to collect from restaurants, grocery stores, schools, and other organic waste material generators that create on average, one ton per month. Exceptions on the tonnage !limit may be made by the County. Collections may take place anywhere agreed upon by the County, Contractor and participant. The contractor must have the demonstrable or planned ability to increase the number of participants served under the current service to include at maximum two hundred (200) food - related businesses, fifty (50) government buildings, thirty (30) school cafeterias and at least thirty (30) of one hundred and fifty (150) multi -unit housing complexes such as apartments, condominiums and mixed use units over the term of the contract. See Table 2 in Attachment F for a list of current customers, collection schedule, and generation. 2.2.2 Background Orange County Solid Waste began the outlined program to establish organic waste collection in the commercial sector of the county through educating, and assisting the commercial sector in meeting waste diversion goals in addition to developing organic waste diversion habits. The program began in the mid- 1990s, working with local pig farmers to collect food waste from select restaurants and a few elementary schools for cooking and feeding their hogs. Only food waste material was accepted at the time. The hog farmers were unable to continue the partnership after 1998. In 1999 the County contracted with a private contractor to collect and compost a wider variety of commercially generated organic waste material that included not only food waste but also wet paper and floral waste (now referred to as organic waste material throughout the proposal). Over time, the County expanded the program to include a variety of higher volume restaurants, grocery stores, institutions such as nursing homes, homeless shelters and facilities at UNC and UNC hospital. Historically, there was a minimum requirement of two (2) tons per month generated by each participant and the average collection rate was three times per week. As seen in Table 2 in Attachment F, some participants generate less than two (2) tons a month. Addition of such participants generating less than two (2) tons of material will be mutually agreed upon between the Contractor and the County based on route density and participant interest. Participants are required to sign a contract with the Contractor, facilitated by the County, acknowledging they are responsible for the damage to carts caused by their mishandling or overfilling and any contamination occurring in their collection receptacles. 2.3 COLLECTION SYSTEM The current program asks that businesses generate at least two (2) tons a month of material and includes 51 businesses throughout the County. The purpose of the program is to assist organic waste generators with starting up and maintaining an organic waste collection program. The current average, excluding the highest and lowest generators is two (2) tons per participant per month. At minimum the Contractor will continue to provide service to the current participant base. Following collection, each receptacle, both carts and dumpsters included, must be rinsed. Cart rinsing must follow and adhere to stormwater regulations. 8 RFP No. 5247