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Orange County, North Carolina <br />Proposal - Waste Characterization Study <br /> <br /> Orange County WCS KCI Proposal <br />3 <br /> <br />Sample Collection and Sort Location Cleanliness <br />The sampling and sorting event will take place over five consecutive days Monday-Friday. During that <br />time, KCI will pull and sort approximately 45-50 samples of MSW depending on the final sample <br />schedule, similar to the previous WCS. <br />KCI will develop a sampling schedule that is based on the collection schedule and annual tonnages of <br />each jurisdiction and generator sector. The following table summarizes the jurisdictions and generator <br />sectors. <br />Jurisdictions Generator Sectors <br />Town of Chapel Hill Single-Family Residential2 <br />Town of Carrboro Multi-Family Residential <br />Town of Hillsborough Commercial <br />UNC <br />Unincorporated County1 <br />1Includes private haulers, County Waste and Recycling Centers, schools, and offices. <br />2Waste and Recycling Centers are a subset of Residential. <br />Once the sample schedule has been finalized, KCI will randomly select route/collection vehicles from the <br />available pool from each jurisdiction/generator sector. Once approved by the County, KCI will prepare <br />placards for each selected truck/route and provide them to each hauler to be distributed to the <br />respective drivers on each day of the sampling and sorting event. This will notify the drivers that they <br />need to tip at the designated location at the County’s landfill for the WCS. If needed, KCI will request <br />County staff assistance in coordinating with private haulers to ensure their cooperation during the WCS. <br />After the truck’s load is tipped, KCI will direct the loader/skid steer to pull a sample weighing at least 200 <br />pounds from a randomly selected area of the load and transfer it to a tarp to be stored until it is ready <br />to be sorted. The sample will be transferred to KCI’s custom sort table and sorted into the material <br />categories approved by the County. Throughout and at the end of sorting each sample, KCI staff will <br />Docusign Envelope ID: 1223AA0B-DDEC-4EBE-8FEA-427010558A5C