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June — August 1996: Conducted outreach to building and construction sector on developing alternatives for managing construction and demolition wastes through a roundtable with local builders and planning department regulators. At the roundtable, the builders' key point was they preferred economic incentives and price signals to any further regulations. September 1996: Issued a Request for Expression of Interest in development of construction and demolition waste facility at Orange Regional Landfill. Most of the seven replies were not directly responsive. One substantive reply from Phoenix Recycling, then of Havelock NC, now of Charlotte, NC, required a waste stream of over 60,000 tons per year as a minimum and at tip fee of $22 per ton. [NOTES: The Havelock C &D recycling facility, still identified as Phoenix Recycling, operates under different management and also accepts selected loads of construction waste containing recyclable materials such as wood, metal and dirt but not very mixed loads with large amounts of unrecyclable material. At their current Charlotte facility, Phoenix accepts mixed loads at $28 per ton and source separated loads at $15. They receive approximately 240 tons per day, but need 300 tons. By contrast we received approximately 120 tons per working day or 33, 600 tons last year of C &D at Orange Regional Landfill] 1993,1998: Differential fees for recyclable construction wood and metal. In 1993, the landfill implemented a ban on yard waste and initiated a lower tipping fee for separated yard waste than solid waste. The lower fee was also applied to solid sawn lumber, excluding pallets and engineered wood waste. That was to encourage separation of wood waste from construction. The differential fee is now $12 v. $40 for mixed construction waste. Very little construction wood is observed to be diverted in response to the differential fees. 1998: the Landfill Owners Group authorized reduction in tipping fees for separated metal to $0. Eighteen percent of the scrap metal recycled at the landfill or 64 tons were diverted as a result of eliminating the fee. The remaining 295 tons were salvaged by the landfill recycling materials handler. 1997- 98: Establishment of salvage program at Orange Regional Landfill C &D working face. One -man salvage operation averages 39 tons per month of scrap metal, pallets, reusable lumber, doors, windows and other items. This represented 1.4% of C &D tonnage last year. The scrap metal (77% of total) and pallets (8 %) are resold to scrap dealers. Reusable goods (14 %) are used in landfill construction, donated to local area non - profits and businesses, or sold to the public. A small amount ( <1 %) was test - ground as wood chips and sold to a local industrial boiler operator. The chips did not meet the company's specifications. No more chips have been produced. Section D Connection to Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan/Goals In 1997, the governments adopted solid waste management goals of a reduction of waste by 45% per person by 2001 and 61% per person by 2006 when compared with a 1991 -92 baseline. The 7