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Page | 13 <br /> <br /> <br />5.4.2 Hazardous Wastes <br />The Toxic Waste Improvements Program (TRIP) includes hazardous waste, electronics, automotive wastes and batteries. <br />The County provides two hazardous household waste drop-off sites, five electronics drop-off sites, ten automotive waste <br />(5 for the public, 5 for government operations.) drop-off sites and public staffed sites for lead-acid and dry cell. The <br />County, with the assistance of Contractors, manages all HHW. Collection statistics are shown in Table 3. <br />Table 3 <br />Material Tons <br />Electronics 429 <br />Hazardous Wastes 294 <br />Batteries, Motor Oil, Oil Filters, Antifreeze 120 <br />Vegetable Oil 70 <br />Total 913 <br /> <br />5.4.3 Landfill <br />Orange County owns a 208-acre parcel just North of Chapel Hill Town limits containing: <br />A. Three closed landfill sites, two that have a methane gas recovery system owned and operated by UNC Chapel Hill <br />(est. 10-15 year life remaining – according to UNC, gas production has peaked and is declining), <br />B. One active 13-acre construction and demolition debris landfill site (accepting about 8,000to 12,000 tons per year), <br />C. A full-service maintenance shop, crew buildings, fuel storage, etc. <br />D. Truck parking and cart storage areas, <br />E. Yard waste and clean wood waste processing, storage and sales area, <br />F. Scrap metal, white goods, tires, some corrugated cardboard, oyster shells and mattresses management for <br />recycling. <br />There is a partly covered transfer pad area where County staff handle all single-stream materials, consolidating them by <br />bucket loader onto walking floor tractor trailers. The County hauls an average of six loads per day totaling ten tons each, <br />to a recycling processor located in Raleigh NC. The transfer pad area also houses a manual tie, single-ram baler used to <br />bale bulky rigid plastics (when there’s a market) and plastic film collected at two staffed drop off sites and some <br />government buildings. As of fall 2018, bulky rigid plastics, while still collected separately, are now added gradually into <br />single-stream though they are still collected separately at staffed WRC sites; that may change when markets rebound. <br />Loose corrugated cardboard is collected separately and hauled to market for additional revenue. <br />6. Compliance Requirements <br /> <br />The County and municipal solid waste systems are regulated by public law, statutes, and other federal, state, and local <br />regulations. Unless otherwise specified, it shall be the Proposer’s responsibility to identify the applicable federal, state, and <br />local laws and regulations and apply the procedures as required. <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 00C54720-9DC0-4A3D-ABED-77E0FD28E0CD