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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board December 11 , 2003 Approved January 8 , 2004 solid waste management staff as we do in other programs . We have changed some of our collection processes by putting pallets on the ground . We also have the issues of scavenging causing breakage and contamination and breakage due to transporting it to the landfill . In the upcoming budget we are talking about adding enclosed buildings or cabinets that would not allow scavenging and other techniques to improve collections . There is a tradeoff between dumpsters and space for more recycling activities . We also try to encourage citizens to take electronics directly to the landfill . Sassaman asks what is the financing of this . Pollock states that we pay $4 . 75 for monitors and make a little money on the metals . Sassaman asks have alternatives been looked at i . e . shipping overseas ? Pollock states that last year during the one - day collection there was an outfit, which worked with West African countries to bridge the digital divide with them . Between our first and second collection they returned about 25 % of what they took . Since we ' ve set up the permanent collection we ' ve less able to do things at the site . The protocol is to direct the public to divert Pentium 1 or better to the PTA Thrift Shops . Regulated Recyclable Materials Ordinance - One Year Update Pollock states that the key points are detailed in the memo you received a copy of . We set up a system to regulate corrugated cardboard, scrap metal and clean wood waste from all sectors except single family residential . We are also regulating builders, haulers even if you go out of county . With a staff of two - and - a - half, we ' re getting over 90 % compliance . Materials are not escaping the system, but are getting shifted from disposal to recycling [as a result of the ordinance] . Kabrick asks if it' s self- policing ? What about UNC ' s C & D waste doesn ' t it go elsewhere . Tipton responds that UNC polices the C & D waste from campus and enforces the County ' s rules and that the contractor report back its waste disposal practices . Pollock states that we are happy with this . We are submitting an article for publication in the February issue of Resource Recycling . There will be a write -up in the Chapel Hill News in the monthly Watching Our Wasteline column . 5 . Other Business - Pollock state the BOCC will have their retreat on January 31 , 2004 . You are invited to submit two items by January 9, 2004 . 4