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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board April 3 , 2008 Approved May 1, 2008 Vickers states that the SWAB is interested in having cardboard pick up with recycling . The garbage issues are each Towns' . Therefore the mechanism for pay as you throw would be for the Town. Each Town has gone to automated pickup to save labor and cut from three staff to one in the garbage truck . In Carrboro they do not pick up cardboard if it' s on the side of the cart. They do collect it if it' s in the cart. This will of course demand an education effort. Howard states that the Town [of Chapel Hill] wants residential cardboard [recycling] collection . Pay -as -you-throw is in our comprehensive plan and the strategic plan to implement that. We use the 68 gallon cart and that is the smallest in the state, it is a first step in moving towards pay as you throw . We have tested the automated trucks as well and in most neighborhoods they do well but we would need staff in other areas . No Board Comments 3 . Presentation of Interim Solid Waste Plan Pollock states that the attachments represent the bare bones of our interim plan. Page three at the bottom gives a snapshot of current activity regarding solid waste disposal . We measure how much isn' t there . Our waste reduction rate has increased - we are making less garbage than before . We reduced from 1 . 36 tons per person to 0 . 711 tons per person . This includes waste landfilled out of county originating from Orange County . We have added small quantity generators to our hazardous waste program and added the Sanitation Division of Public Works to our Department. The last chapter of the plan describes our planning efforts . For the last three years we have engaged in a rigorous planning process where we ' ve engaged with RRSI, a consulting firm which has helped us look at a bunch of different elements of how to reduce waste and increase recycling including : • should we build a materials recovery facility or not, • how we might change the nature of rural waste collection and change the number and type of the centers people use, • if we should charge at the centers in lieu of having them be tax- supported, • if we should reduce the number of unstaffed drop off sites to improve efficiency, • the notion to franchise solid waste collection and recycling along with it as a way to bring recycling to the commercial sector, and • the consideration of franchising rural solid waste collection. Going forward looking at the last page of the memo there is a table that lists the most pertinent things in terms of the future planning efforts that you will be facing as part of the work group . We plan to submit some version of this interim solid waste management plan with not a clearly defined timeline; we do know that these are the 3