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11.7 <br />Orange County, NC <br />Financial Plan and Rate Study for Solid Waste Enterprise Fund <br />4.5 REGULATED RECYCLABLE MATERIALS ORDINANCE <br />The institution of the Regulated Recyclable Materials Ordinance (RRMO) in October 2002 may <br />have had the unintended side effect of reducing the tonnage of material disposed at the C &D <br />Landfill (without directing this material for recycling). It is possible that the sorting and <br />permitting requirements of the RRMO coupled with the timing of the global economic recession <br />may have caused a decrease in tonnages that has not rebounded as of FY 2015 -16 as shown in <br />Exhibit 22. Although the RRMO does produce additional revenue from contractor licensing fees, <br />the tipping fee revenue and economies of scale lost from the decline in the tonnage of C &D <br />waste disposed (from roughly 30,000 TPY to 6,000 TPY, an 80% decline that equals <br />approximately $960K in lost revenue at the current tipping fee of $40 /ton) outweighs the <br />licensing fee revenue of $120K considerably. <br />Exhibit 22. Tons Disposed at Orange County C &D Landfill by Year <br />30,000 <br />Institution of the <br />25,000 RRMO Global <br />} Economic <br />a <br />20,000 Recession Closure O <br />a <br />0 OC MSW <br />CL <br />0 15,000 tandfiffim <br />v <br />10,000 <br />0 <br />v <br />5,000 <br />01/02 02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16 <br />Fiscal Year <br />32 <br />