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21 <br />Orange County, NC <br />Financial Plan and Rate Study for Solid Waste Enterprise Fund <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 in order to reduce <br />reliance on General Fund revenue, both of which have since been replaced by the Solid Waste <br />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 />