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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board March 2, 2006 Approved April 6, 2006 6 . Rural Garbage Collection [This item discussed after item 2] Wilson states that we are bringing back a number of white papers to you all because the Work Group doesn' t meet often enough to deal with all the issues so the Advisory Board is the next best thing . We have talked about a number of different elements of solid waste management in the county . The one we have not talked about yet is rural [unincorporated area] garbage collection . By that we mean residential and non. residential waste collection services excluding C &D . Multifamily is also non- residential; bear with me, it is . For the residential sector in the county it is pretty much open season . The residents can hire anyone they want to collect their waste wherever they want as often as they want . They also have the option of the six solid waste convenience centers to get rid of their waste at no charge . A third option used by a small fraction of the residents is to bring their waste to the landfill . Some of the issues regarding the current system are : • a number of overlapping routes where in a subdivision of 50 homes you may have three different trucks coming through • most of the waste collected by the private sector is delivered to out of county facilities • the solid waste convenience centers are heavily used because it' s free • there a few small collection companies that only collect a trailer park or a subdivision . Some basic alternatives are : • the County could assume control of the waste itself • it could use a franchise and award one or more private haulers collection contracts . • the County could compete with the private sector and start its own service The non-residential sector is serviced by the municipalities . Hillsborough by franchise while Carrboro and Chapel Hill do their own, though private companies also compete in the Towns . There aren' t too many small haulers when it comes to non-residential . Equipment is usually more expensive and operated by big companies . Some of the issues are the same as residential with multiple trucks servicing one general location, this wastes more fuel than necessary and causes more wear and tear on the roads . Most of the waste is delivered out of county avoiding the County' s regulations [bans on landfilling certain materials ] . The options are about the same as the residential . The county could compete directly with the private haulers . The county could assume commercial collection themselves or through a franchise and hire one or more private companies to do it . 6