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24 <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: John Link, County Manager <br />FROM: Gayle Wilson; Solid Waste Management Director <br />SUBJECT: Staff Assessment of Chapel Hill Proposal for Residential Pay-As-You-Throw <br />Solid Waste Collection <br />DATE: January 22, 2001 <br />This memorandum provides observations and assessment of the Town of Chapel Hill's proposal <br />regarding residential Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) in Chapel Hill. <br />Background <br />Solid Waste Staff and I have reviewed the report prepared by Chapel Hill Public Works <br />Department staff regarding the possible implementation of a PAYT system for the single-family <br />residential sector in Chapel Hill. They recommend avolume-based system based on purchase of <br />tags to be affixed to garbage bags. They estimate the cost of such a program to be $0.50 to $0.60 <br />per bag/tag for disposal only and up to $2.00 per bag/tag to cover the cost of collection and <br />disposal using fees only, no tax revenues, unless there were a revenue shortfall from the fee <br />system. The report suggests implementing the system at the completion of the shift to curbside <br />waste collection, anticipated in spring 2002. <br />The report recognizes that some of the reduction in solid waste will result from a shift of <br />materials to recycling, an estimated 500 to .900 tons per year. This would be expected to cause <br />increases in the volume for recycling programs at both the curb and drop-off sites. <br />The resolution accompanying the report requests that the County advise the Town on what <br />changes would be necessary in the current recycling program to accommodate more recycling <br />tonnage and participation, given the Town's projected PAYT implementation timetable and what <br />issues would need to be resolved to ensure the greatest chance of success. <br />Orange County staff analysis of the current residential waste stream coupled with experience of <br />others who have implemented PAYT in other regions where there was already a mature <br />residential recycling program, leads to a conclusion that the Town could divert a range of 550 to <br />900 tons ($% to 13%) of additional recyclables from this sector. (That is a 1 percent to <br />1.5 percent reduction of total municipal solid waste currently landfilled from Orange County). <br />According to 1999-2000 SCS' waste stream study, an estimated 2,000 tons of total potential <br />recyclables now remain in Chapel Hill's residential waste stream, using the current recycling <br />system. About half of that 2,000 tons is recyclable only at dropoff sites under the current <br />recycling structure. Thus PAYT may impact dropoff as well as curbside recycling as citizens <br />strive to minimize the amount they pay for disposing of. <br />
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