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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Maatlng Date: October 1, 2001 <br />Actlgn A9entla <br />Item No. 4 <br />SUBJECT: Govemmenlal Building/Dry Cell Battery/Electronics Recyclinq <br />DEPARTMENT; Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT~Sj: <br />9I6/O1 Stall Memo re: Governmental <br />Builtling, Dry Cell Battery, antl <br />EleMronics Recycling Proposal <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Gayle Wileort 9fi8-2885 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough T32-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 988-4501 <br />Durham fi88-7331 <br />Mebane 336-22T-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To tliscuss further antl consider approval of the implementation of progrems <br />proposed In the Manager's Recommendetl 2001-02 Opereting Budget related to recycling in <br />governmental buildings, recycling of used batteries, end recycling of electronics. <br />BACKGROUND: The recommended 2001-02 butlget for the Solitl Wastellandfll Operations <br />Fund indutled footling to implement programs [ha[woultl bring in-house the recyding in local <br />government builtlings, and setup progmms for recycling usetl dry cell batteries antl electronic <br />equipment such as personal computers. There was insufOCienttlme during the June 2001 <br />budge[ work sessions to address all HOCC questions regaNing some of these proposed <br />recycling programs Footling for the programs was indutletl in the 2001-02 operating butlget <br />approvetl by the BOCC, but program implementation antl the creation of a recommended new <br />permanent position were tlelsyetl pending further BOCC discussion at a solid waste wotlc <br />session. <br />These progrems are assembled into a single proposal package primarily due to the <br />recommentletl-sharetl staffing arrangement A single Recycling Matatlals Handler position <br />woultl provitle the labor for ell three components of the recycling proposal. The three programs <br />propoaetl are: <br />• Governmental Builtling Recycling Program -This progrem woultl consolitlate, under Solitl <br />Waste Departrnent operations, services provitled bye combination of publiGpmafe and <br />govemmenVCOnVact service provitlers. Governmental buildings in all juriedicticna ere <br />invclvetl. <br />• Dry Cell Battery Recycling-This program woultl further County goals of reducing toxic8y u( <br />the local waste stream. Batteries woultl be collected a wnvenienca centers, et cooperaling <br />stores where batteries are soltl, and incoryoretetl into local cumsitle collection services. <br />