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Minutes been Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board December 6, 2007 Approved February 7, 2008 about recycling when are we going to get the University and these large facilities involved in mandatory recycling . It' s not for the resident to do 100 % recycling. It is time to bring everybody on board and do a massive educational program that will produce recycling for all of Orange County . Carver states that I agree with Reverend Campbell, I am not in favor of extending the landfill . The sooner that sucker closes, the better I like it. When I first started going to landfill meetings Mr . Olive use to get up at most meetings and talk . He used to say, living in Chapel Hill, we ought to be able to come to good conclusions . You have the University, Duke, and a highly intelligent population, surely this community can come to and solve a problem. That hasn' t really happened up to this point . 5 . Solid Waste Management Plan Work Group Recommendations and Next Step Pollock states that at last week ' s solid waste plan work group meeting, a couple of developments took place that we think are important. One was that staff and our technical consultant, RRSI, came up with a short-term plan to commingle all recyclable cans and bottles and develop the capacity to ship them to a private merchant processing facility. The work group endorsed that interim step . The consequences of the endorsement are that we have significant amount of work to do to begin to prepare that. Our consultant has provided us with a doable but ambitious timetable to make the kind of improvements and changes at the recycling area at the existing facility on Eubanks Road . We need to do that. It also has the benefit to us of freeing up significant amount of labor and equipment time from our existing staff to enable us to take on some short-term improvements and enhancements to the collections program. There are some budgetary implications associated with this . We will address that in greater detail in next year' s budget but we think we can accomplish all the physical improvements to the site and staff shifting under our current structure . There are a couple of important outcomes of this . One is that it is pretty clear at the current time with our current volume of materials that we don' t need to consider in the short run building our own materials recovery facility . One of the corollaries to considering this facility at the Eubanks Road site now is that the bigger decision of where, when, and if, we build a materials recovery facility can be put aside . So the requirements for capital, siting etc . can be put aside for now . It is important to consider processing once we have a larger volume, but we don t have to make that decision now . The other thing is that it gives us a trial run with going to the merchant facilities in a more systematic manner with a larger volume of materials . We had asked the consultant to do a market test of what the different private facilities might offer us versus what it might look like if we were to build our own facility . In the short to 8