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Page | 10 <br /> <br /> <br />5.3 Orange County Solid Waste Management Department <br />The County, as a unit of government, operates the Solid Waste Management Department (the Department). The <br />Department provides recycling collection services throughout the County in all jurisdictions and (see next section for <br />details), manages five waste and recycling (convenience) centers, an active C&D landfill with related activities at the <br />landfill site on Eubanks Road in Chapel Hill. Related activities include yard waste management, tires, white goods, etc. (see <br />Table 7 below for list of services). There are also three closed landfills on site still under active monitoring and maintenance <br />regimes. The two closed MSW landfills are also extracting gas with a LGGTE system. <br /> <br />For the Solid Waste Management Department, 83% of its revenue is derived from the Solid Waste Programs Fee levied <br />annually on the property tax bill for each habitable unit throughout the County (and the part of Chapel Hill within Durham <br />County) regardless of size, location or usage; the annual fee is currently $142 per unit. Other sources of revenue are landfill <br />tipping fees, building-permit-based-solid-waste-plan-fees, various state reimbursements for managing tires, white goods, <br />mercury-bearing appliance recycling, electronics, etc., interest income and landfill gas payments from the gas system <br />owner UNC Chapel Hill. <br /> <br />The Department is organized into four divisions: Environmental Support (Administration etc.), Disposal, Operations <br />(including Recycling and Sanitation), and Data and Research. An organizational chart is included in Appendix 2. <br /> <br />The Environmental Support Division also contains a subdivision of Environmental Enforcement. That subdivision is <br />responsible for evaluating all new development plans and applications for adequate recycling collection area, inclusion of <br />a solid waste plan addressing best management for construction waste and field monitoring of plan compliance by <br />builders and haulers. This Division oversees enforcement of all local and state ordinances, statutes and regulations related <br />to illegal dumping, littering, illegal burning, and the County’s Regulated Recyclable Materials Ordinance (RRMO). The <br />RRMO bans landfilling of corrugated cardboard, scrap metal and clean wood waste from Orange County and requires its <br />separation for recycling either at the source or a sorting facility. Environmental enforcement also processes recyclable <br />material permits, hauler licenses, and certified C&D recycling facility applications. They conduct follow up inspections of <br />certified construction and demolition material reclamation facilities (MRFs) and analyze tonnage reports from same. <br /> <br />The Operations Division manages all County-operated and contracted recycling programs which are listed below in Tables <br />5 and 6 and Sanitation which consists primarily of the five staffed Waste and Recycling Centers and related hauling. The <br />Division is also responsible for MSW collection from the County School systems on a fee basis and, a few miscellaneous <br />public facilities under contract and from County government buildings at an authorized charge. <br /> <br />The Disposal Division is responsible for the C&D landfill operation and affiliated services including tires, yard waste, scrap <br />metals, construction projects and related activities on the site at 1514 Eubanks Road. <br /> <br />While the Solid Waste Department is a County Department and the operations and budget are County functions, <br />management of solid waste in Orange County is also provided with policy direction, oversight and recommendations by a <br />formal Solid Waste Advisory Group (SWAG) represented by two elected officials from each of the four local governments <br />and one representative each from UNC and UNC Health Care. <br /> <br /> <br />5.4 Recycling Programs in Orange County <br />Orange County operates a unified public recycling program throughout the County in all jurisdictions. It has a single <br />identity and is seamless among the jurisdictions with one phone number, web site, set of ‘rules’, education and outreach <br />program, one contractor for urban curbside recycling, etc. The programs are financed primarily through an annual Solid <br />Waste Programs Fee (SWPF) that funds all recycling related services and supporting administrative costs including on-site <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 00C54720-9DC0-4A3D-ABED-77E0FD28E0CD