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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> November 2, 2006 <br /> Approved December 7, 2006 <br /> Norwood states that it may make attractive to the commissioners to have control over <br /> the time the trucks leave from the transfer station . <br /> Wilson states that the more control over a private company the more costly it can be . <br /> If the waste were going to Guilford County or Wake County, I would recommend <br /> doing our, own hauling . If you get out fifty, sixty or seventy miles, you have to <br /> contract due to the uncertainty of needs for equipment . We would not be allowed to <br /> leave any waste on the tip floor overnight . <br /> Bowerman asks as far as the recycle, we are not planning on having a recycling <br /> equivalent to the transfer station? I know that we talk about bringing recycling in <br /> there while it is feasible . Are we at some point, ten years down the line when it is not <br /> feasible building another recycling transfer station ? <br /> Wilson states that there could be a MRF in county but there is nowhere at the landfill <br /> to build one . The Greene Tract is off . We might be transferring recyclables from that <br /> transfer station or in some other way . But there' s not going to be another facility <br /> similar to the transfer station . <br /> Bowerman states that at some point the recyclables are going to be more than the <br /> waste it may be that doing the weird stuff with the recyclables is actually not the best <br /> choice . They are almost of equal importance as far as a transfer station goes . And <br /> we ' re only looking at one of those . <br /> Wilson states that there is only room on the existing landfill property for one such <br /> facility . I see no scenario by which there would be two facilities on the same property . <br /> It ' s possible some time later that we would build a MRF . I don' t think we will in the <br /> near future whether you recommend it or not . <br /> Bowerman asks what about when the recycling is more of the tonnage . <br /> Sassaman states that the waste transfer station needs to be located as closely as <br /> possible to the centroid of garbage generation . Garbage is collected by little trucks <br /> that are not geared to haul stuff long distances . Presumably a recyclables transfer <br /> station would take less of a foot print than a MRF . <br /> Wilson states that if there were going to be no processing, probably (a lesser <br /> footprint) . <br /> Sassaman asks could we do a pre-sort? <br /> Spire states that it depends on how the materials came in - single - stream or dual- <br /> stream . <br /> 3 <br />