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26 Compost outreach: County provides training, workshops, two demonstration sites and backyard compost bin sales for all County residents. Outreach to commercial food waste generators to capture more food waste in County's commercial program. Solid Waste Management Planning, Data Management and Reporting Annual NC DENR Solid Waste Report: County, in cooperation with the Towns submits required annual reporting and solid waste management planning to NC DENR. Towns and County cooperate with requests for information /data Financial Establish, levy collet and administer recycling fees: for providing Urban Curbside and Multi- family recycling services within the jurisdictions of the Towns. Fees established based on costs of those services along with other universal services like drop off sites and public education, within the Towns' jurisdictions. Cooperate with The Town of Chapel Hill to set, levy and collect fees: for the costs of services for those areas of the Town of Chapel Hill in Durham County. Between UNC and the Countv (and prior to 2000. the Town of Chanel Hill as manaeer of the Landfill Owners Grou History Since UNC opened its landfill at Carolina North in the 1950s, there has been some basic cooperation in that the Town of Chapel Hill brought some of its municipal waste to that landfill for burial. When that landfill closed in 1972 until 2008, UNC then brought the majority of its disposable municipal solid wastes (MSW) to the Orange County landfill located on Eubanks Road. UNC Hospital also delivered MSW but not medical or infectious waste, to that landfill as well. In 2008, at the request of Orange County, UNC began directing its MSW to the transfer station owned by its waste hauling contractor, Waste Industries, in order to conserve local landfill air space. A variety of other, mostly smaller scale cooperative efforts in solid waste management have also been in place over the time period since both UNC and Orange County initiated major recycling programs in the late 1980s. Some of those efforts are identified below and many are ongoing. Food Waste: From inception of the County's commercial food waste collection program in 1999 through 2008, Orange County Solid Waste Management Department (OCSWMD) absorbed the cost of collecting up to 500 tons annually of compostable waste from campus cafeterias and laboratories. UNC took this over in 2009 but has been able to use the same contractor and receive the same favorable rate negotiated by Orange County. Last year UNC collected 650 tons and businesses in County another 1500. 4