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Project Title: <br />Separating glass bottles and jars from single stream recycling at drop-off sites, convenience <br />centers and commercial locations to improve recycling value and processing efficiency. <br />Applicant Contact Information <br />Name & Title of Main Contact: Evan Brown, Recycling Operations Manager <br />Organization: Orange County Solid Waste Management <br />Address: PO Box 17177, Chapel Hill NC 27516 <br /> 1207 Eubanks Road Chapel Hill NC 27516 <br />Phone Number: (919) 968-2788 <br />Fax Number: (919) 932-2900 <br />E-mail address: ebrown@orangecountync.gov <br />Date of Proposal Submittal: July 8, 2019 <br />Letter of Commitment from each partner: Attached <br />Project Description: Detailed description of proposed grant project <br />This is a multi-phase, multi-County project to institute a program change wherein residents and <br />businesses in Orange County separate glass bottles and jars from other recyclables. Durham and <br />Alamance County will participate by bringing source-separated glass collected at their staffed sites to <br />recycle with Orange County’s glass. The glass will then be shipped to Strategic Materials in Wilson, NC <br />that has stated interest in purchasing separated glass bottles and jars. (Attachment 1) <br />Currently, glass bottles and jars are recycled in the Counties’ various single-stream recycling programs <br />mixed with other recyclable materials. With drastically changing markets, higher processing costs and <br />increases in contamination driving higher costs to the Counties’ recycling collection programs, Orange <br />County has developed a plan to separate glass bottles and jars program-by-program, The plan begins <br />with a pilot project at commercial sites, then adds Waste and Recycling Centers(Convenience) followed <br />by unstaffed drop-off sites, and finally expanding to all commercial locations that have mostly glass in <br />their recycling streams, e.g. bars and restaurants. Future phases not covered under this grant proposal <br />include the other commercial sites without much glass, multi-unit housing and single family programs. <br />Both Alamance and Durham Counties have committed to bring source-separated glass from their <br />convenience center sites at this time. (Attachments 2 &3) <br />List of Public recycling programs that will use the transfer station or MRF: <br />Orange County Solid Waste Management, Durham County Solid Waste, Alamance County Solid Waste, <br />List of private recycling businesses that will use the transfer station: <br />The list is unknown at this time, but Orange County will plan to advertise the availability of this <br />opportunity for dropping off source-separated glass bottles and jars throughout the County and <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 70D8DD00-0712-4FFB-A412-CD2A7FF1E38B