Agenda 06-03-2025; 6-a - Approval of Solid Waste Master Plan – Path to Zero Waste

Browse Search

17 5.3 1 Mulching and these sites throughout the year and will also work with interested Composting Facilities organizations, schools, or businesses to provide composting education on a desired basis.All these educational opportunities Orange County works to divert yard waste ("green waste") and are provided at no charge to the public. food waste(or"food scraps")from the landfill.Both mulch and compost are created and sold for use in garden and landscape 5.4 Enforcement projects throughout the County.The mulch is made by the County The Towns authorize enforcement of the County's Regulated from clean yard waste that is brought to the landfill by residents, Recyclable Material Ordinance (RRMO) within each town's local government collection programs, and contractors of the municipal limits.12 Each town may assist in the enforcement of County,and is processed atthe Eubanks Road Operations Facility. the County's RRMO within their jurisdiction using their staff in The mulch is also sold in bulk at this facility. coordination with the County.The Towns monitorwaste collection The compost is produced by Brooks Contractors, a commercial for banned materials to prevent the delivery of banned materials composting firm located in Goldston, North Carolina. Food for disposal.The County provides solid waste plan advice,review, waste material is collected in the County's various food waste and approvals in concert with development applications to the collection programs and combined with other organic materials, Towns.The County assists the Towns'staff in enforcing the RRMO such as manure,wood chips,and agricultural wastes,to create and landfill bans on privately collected waste containers. The the feedstock for the finished compost product.CompostNow is Town of Chapel Hill shall,by whatever means are legally required, contracted with Brooks to collect food waste. authorize the County to provide the Services within that part of Orange County hosts organic food and food-related paper the town situated in Durham County. waste drop-offs at the Walnut Grove Church Road and Eubanks The County, in cooperation with the Towns, is responsible for Road WRCs.The County also supports organic food and food- developing and timely submission of required annual reporting related paper waste drop-off at the Carrboro, Hillsborough, and solid waste management planning to the North Carolina and Chapel Hill Farmer's Markets.In addition to these drop-off Department of Environmental Quality (NC DEQ). The County opportunities for food waste,the County supports food waste also certifies Material Reclamation Facilities for C&D recycling collection from area restaurants, florists, and other higher processing. Materials from construction projects must comply generators of food waste. For residential use, the County with RRMO,and materials mustgo to certified facilities.Currently, sells compost bins" to the public through its Solid Waste the County has four(4)listed certified facilities. Management Department Administration Office and works to foster the development of at-home compost for individuals' yard waste, brown leaves, and kitchen fruit and vegetable scraps via robust education initiatives. Compost education is a County priority, as evidenced by the informative how-to materials available on the Solid Waste Management Department's website and its two (2) compost demonstration sites located at the Chapel Hill Community Center and the Orange County Solid Waste Management Administrative "Source:https.//www.orangecountync.govl965/Mulch-Compost Office. Orange County offers composting education classes at InterlocalAgreement—County and Towns,2018.Retrievedfrom Orange County's Solid Waste Management Department. Orange County,North Carolina Solid Waste Master Plan:The Road to Zero W � � � 15 Fall 2024 COUNTY