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encourage its partners in Alamance and Durham to do the same. Orange County will operate a <br />controlled staffed site and schedule any material drop-offs so that it can be observed. <br />Anticipated Processor of Recyclables collected: Strategic Materials, Wilson NC. Strategic processes <br />color-sorts and sells glass cullet for use in making bottles, fiberglass insulation, sand blasting media, <br />beads for reflective highway paint and other industrial products. <br />Operational details for the system: Who will operate the system, who will haul recyclables to the MRF <br />Orange County Solid Waste Management will be the primary system operator with Alamance and <br />Durham Counties using the Eubanks Rd drop-off point to deliver their separated glass containers. <br />Orange County SWMD recycling collection staff will also be collecting separated glass containers from its <br />commercial locations, drop-off sites and staffed Waste and Recycling Centers as well as, in a future <br />project phase, multi-unit housing (MUH) and non-glass-heavy commercial sites. Orange County SWMD <br />will load and haul glass containers to Strategic Materials in Wilson, NC using its own road tractor and <br />driver with a self-dumping trailer that is to be purchased with grant funds. Strategic has stated interest <br />in buying source-separated glass containers from Orange County paying up to $20 per ton for high <br />quality material with minimal contamination. <br />Number of jobs created: 0-1. Orange County intends to perform the work of collecting source separated <br />glass and hauling it to Wilson with no additional employees. We do not expect any of the partners <br />involved to add employees either. Strategic Materials is a highly automated facility and their operational <br />staff indicated that some additional tonnage from Orange County and the surrounding partners would <br />not generate any new jobs. It is possible that the increase in overall economic activity may generate a <br />job via the “multiplier effect’ . <br />The table on the following page shows a projection of how many tons of glass may be collected monthly <br />from Orange County, assuming 100% participation in each program. Tonnages are based on the recent <br />Orange County recycling composition study showing the percentage of glass containers by weight in the <br />recycling stream and total tons extrapolated from eleven months of FY 18-19. Durham County projects <br />up to nine tons of glass per month from its two sites. We have no data on Alamance County at this time. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />REMAINDER OF THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK <br /> <br /> <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 70D8DD00-0712-4FFB-A412-CD2A7FF1E38B