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Memorandum To : Solid Waste Advisory Board From : Gayle Wilson Subject : Key Solid Waste Plan Decision Points Date : September 7 , 2006 At the August SWAB meeting and prior to that at the Solid Waste Plan Work Group ' s May meeting , requests were made for a memo outlining key decisions involved in the Solid Waste Plan Development process . This memo provides an outline of the key decisions regarding the waste reduction and recycling element of the plan as well as other elements including waste collection and disposal/transfer which are also highly important to plan success and demand key decisions as well . The outline is a condensed version of the decision points memo that was distributed to the Solid Waste Plan Work Group prior to the meeting with RRSI in June . We plan to also present this decision points outline to the Work Group along with the report due from RRSI next week . We further expect to introduce some of these points to the group when we receive the Rural Solid Waste collection study, projected in December 2006 . Many of the points contained in the earlier, more detailed decision points memo are not included below as they are relatively minor and will not directly affect the major decisions . Some however are tied to bigger decisions , for example : if you select automated single - stream curbside recycling as the collection method, you must use a roll cart , not bins . As an alternative approach, single - stream , non- automated collection can be done with the pending two -bin system that Orange County will use in its curbside program for the next several years . That will not be as efficient but may be cheaper in the short run equipment- wise . The major areas for decision making include : Processing The key decision is to build a facility or ship out the recyclables . This decision can be subjected to a series of economic tests based on soliciting specific proposals from current out of county MRF operators to take our materials , proposals from hauling companies to get them there and proposals from equipment providers to process the materials . The costs generated from those proposals could then be used to evaluate more precisely the economics of transport v . processing and marketing . Development of a commercial recycling program is another key plan element that demands some decisions . RRSI plans to present some case studies of other communities ' approaches to commercial recycling and offer cost estimates of capitalizing and operating a commercial recycling program at two different levels of participation and diversion that should help with the economics of establishing a commercial sector recycling program .