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A <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 4, 2002 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Act <br /> i No. <br /> SUBJECT: Renewal of Food Waste Collection and Composting Contract <br /> DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) Nc <br /> ATTACHMEN'l INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Draft Agreement Joe Clayti 969-2972 <br /> List of Participating Restaurants Gayle Wilson, 968-2885 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough 7324181 <br /> Chapel Hill 968-0501 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 336-227.2031 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider renewal of a contract that enables the County Solid Waste <br /> Management Department to provide separated food waste collection services to commercial <br /> establishments throughout Orange County. <br /> BACKGROUND: For the past three years, Brooks Contracting of Goldston, North Carolina has <br /> provided food waste collection and Composting services to Orange Community Recycling. <br /> Brooks provides storage cads, collects food waste, and composts it at their facility in Chatham <br /> County. This contract represents a renewal of the existing agreement to collect from <br /> establishments willing to provide at least two tons of separated food waste monthly. Staff <br /> expects fe expand collection during 2002-03 to four Harris Teeter supermarkets in Chapel Hill <br /> and Cardona based on a perceived corporate commdment by the supermarket chain to <br /> recycling of food waste. Under present circumstances, staff believes that the arrangement with <br /> Brooks is an effective means of carrying out this important component of the Count's recycling <br /> program. However,as noted in the County's solid waste management plan filed with the State, <br /> the County may consider larger scale organics composting carried out as an in-house program <br /> at some point in the future. <br /> FINANCIAL IMPACT: The cost of this contract is estimated at$85,000 annually and assumes <br /> that Brooks Contracting will collect up to 800 tons of food. Any amount over that tonnage would <br /> cost an additional $55 per ton. A total of$91,000 has been Included in the proposed FY 2002- <br /> 03 Solid Waste Management Department budget for this service to allow for the proposed <br /> addition of the supermarkets to the program and any collections beyond 800 tons. There is no <br /> increase in the per ton cost for the renewal of this agreement. <br />