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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board September 3 , 2009 Approved November 5, 2009 an ongoing concern about reducing its carbon footprint having a single hauler is far more efficient and some data in the Olver report show this . Further why have 433 , 000 trips to the convenience centers when a more efficient franchise might halve that? The corollary item to franchising for residential waste collection is how to provide collection for business and unincorporated, non-residential, [and] other kinds of entities . There are a few ways to go about it. One is to continue as it is now, laissez faire . The analysis by Olver showed there was economic advantage for those who get private collection against a franchise because of a lack of density of businesses . Another way to attack that problem is to attach as many businesses as possible to a rural residential franchise . Another way is to assume every franchisee is responsible for all of the waste in that area regardless of its origin . As a corollary issue, if we are charging at the convenience centers, is there any need to keep the business out or if you are there paying for the use of the convenience centers does that become an option [to let businesses in? ] . Again the same set of issues comes up - does it make sense from a flow-control perspective, where it clearly doesn' t make sense economically [to individual businesses] , to have a stand-alone franchise . In the past we also examined the notion of a franchise partnership , in particular with Hillsborough, but conceivably it could also be with Carrboro or Chapel Hill . Wilson states that some of the rural business also have difficulty getting service and are charged a higher rate . it is to combine the small rural business to be put on the curbside One way to do program with a couple of bins or carts and be picked up in a residential manner instead of requiring every business, regardless of size, to have a dumpster . Given the report , the conclusions and what we know about the county it doesn' t seem to make sense to have a stand-alone commercial franchise other than guaranteeing everybody they could find someone to service them . Sassaman asks what do small business out in the county do now . Tipton replies they have to contract. Wilson states that they can haul to the landfill or contract. Pollock states that the next thing is decision three about convenience centers . We tried to break out the two decisions for the convenience centers, one related to a set of operational and financial decisions and the second to a set of decisions related to geographic equity, where future centers might be located . 9