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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board May 3, 2007 Approved June 7, 2007 The other piece you will see is specifically about the dropoff sites and convenience centers as a way to manage recyclables and solid waste . Jim Frey did an analysis on how much it really cost to run the convenience centers and the dropoff sites to collect garbage and recyclables and what are some other ways to do it. We see this as a two -meeting process . The first meeting to hear all this stuff and then a second meeting to make a recommendation on rural solid waste collection and on the dropoff sites and convenience centers . From there we will move on to the other study which is the MRF . There are two separate bids for that. One is to look at what it would be like if any of the four MRFs took our materials, processed it, and paid us for some of the revenue of the materials . You will be hearing about that in a month or SO * There will be two opportunities next Thursday to talk . At 10 : 00 to 12 : 00 there will be the coffee klatch at our facility and at 5 : 00 to 8 : 00 pm there will be the formal presentation by the consultant. 4 . Landfill Gas Report to BOCC Pollock states that the initial option was to look at what it might look like for all the various county buildings and schools that are bit nearbuilt near the landfill area to become users of the gas and the economics don' t work very well. There is not enough of a heating load to make it worthwhile to run piping to all those buildings . The other co-generation project was for Carolina North. The economics of that looked better but there ' s no Carolina North yet. The timing of Carolina North against when we close the landfill and start pulling methane is fairly critical . If you build a stand alone electricity generation only facility, the buy back price for the electricity is not high enough . The green power credit of $0 . 15 to $ 0 . 19 cents per kilowatt hour plus the $ 0 . 021 or $0 . 022 that Duke Power is willing to pay, it' s not enough . The power companies are only willing to pay the lowest rate they have to . We have to get at least $ 0 . 05 per kilowatt hour . The summary of the report states that for a heat and power project to work, Carolina North has to be there . UNC seems like a willing buyer . We don' t know when it will be built. The down side is if it [co- generation project] doesn ' t get built the methane gas will need to be vented . Sassaman asks what is the BTU per cubic foot. Pollock replies about one half of what natural gas is, which is 1 , 000 BTU per cubic foot while landfill gas is about 400 BTU per cubic foot. Bowerman states that so none of the other schools can do it, it would have to be a brand new school to use gas . There is Seawell, the middle school and the high school all next to each other, don' t they use gas ? 3