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Comprehensive Review of S olid W aste Collection and Disposal Options v2.1 48 10/22/12  Eliminating Town commercial collection services entirely. Using the Town’s FY 2012-13 budget, SWSD staff assignments, waste disposal data, and other Town records, SCS appropriately allocated SWSD costs between residential and commercial services. With these allocated costs, SCS employed the pro forma scenario modeling to assess the projected impacts to the Town budget for each of the scenarios listed above. A detailed discussion of this analysis, results, and recommendations is presented in Appendix A. 4.1.2.6 Grease Management The Town maintains a “grease corral” downtown for restaurants and other food service providers to dispose of used grease. Collection from the grease corral is provided by third party collection vendors contracted by the restaurants. Revenues from the sale of grease is returned to the restaurant and not presently shared with the Town. Collection vendors are to provide scheduled cleaning maintenance; however this maintenance is often insufficient or on an irregular schedule to sufficiently address the corral’s cleaning needs, thus Town staff are often left to perform the cleaning services to avoid environmental hazards and a general public nuisance. Furthermore the inherent turnover of temporary staff presents a challenge to restaurant owners in property training its employees on the use and maintenance of the corral. To reduce the workload on its staff, avoid environmental risk, and mitigate the potential of this public nuisance, the Town should require that each restaurant manage its own grease through a private grease collection firm at the point of generation and cease operation of the grease corral. 4.1.3 Y ard W aste As described in Section 2, the Town currently provides one-time, weekly, curbside yard waste collections along the 14 established residential collections routes. Dedicated yard waste roll- carts are available for purchase from the Town for $47 each; however, residents may also prepare yard waste for collection per the following methods:  Rigid container – less than 40 gallons and less than 60 pounds;  Paper yard waste bags;  Bundled limbs and twigs, etc. – less than 50 pounds, less than 4 feet in length, and less than 24 inches in diameter; and,  Loose piles at the curb – brush and twigs less than 3 cubic yards. The Town takes the collected yard waste to the Orange County Landfill to be mulched and sold to County residents. Orange County charges $25 for a 3 cubic yard scoop of mulch for residents providing their own hauling, and delivers larger volumes of mulch using County resources for a bulk fee equivalent to approximately $10 per cy.