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Providing differential fees or bans on landfilling of certain materials can result in source separation. Whether bans are state - mandated or locally passed; they can be effective with rigorous enforcement. For example, The Orange Regional Landfill has had success with the state - mandated ban on yard waste and the local ban non - residential corrugated cardboard. We now convert over 5,000 tons annually of yard waste to marketable mulch and divert enough corrugated cardboard to have saved eight months of landfill space over the remaining life of the landfill. Many C &D facilities throughout the country routinely offer lower tipping fees to attract source separated material. Salvage operations at the working face or tipping floor can also be effective ways to divert reusable and recyclable materials from the waste stream. The three centralized processing facilities described in the table below, Iowa Central Demolition and Recycling facility, Mecklenberg County's C &D recycling facility and the Gabbert and Meyer facility in Sarasota Florida referenced below all have a hand- picking salvage component upstream of their centralized processing areas. Very few facilities that manage C &D have only a hand - picking operation or source - separated processing only. It is most often an integrated component of a larger centralized processing system. The section below draws examples of processing needed to further manage source - separated loads from primarily our staff experience at Orange Regional Landfill C &D area. The handling and market quality issues we have identified are typical of those faced by any C &D processor. At the working face of our current C &D landfill, we collect for diversion to recycling or reuse approximately 40 -50 tons per month of scrap metal, reusable goods, pallets and dimension lumber. Some of this material arrives at the landfill source- separated, some is picked from the working face and some is identified as an easily separable part of the load and contractors are requested to separate the material further. Some small contractors voluntarily source - separate with no additional incentives other than to avoid landfilling of potentially reusable materials.. Under any conditions, even source - separated materials require further handling and processing, therefore costs before they can be marketed. Metals: At a minimum, metals recycled at the landfill now must be inspected by staff for contaminants, drums, and other types of metal objects prohibited by the scrap buyer. Once materials are inspected, we load and compact metal in rolloff containers prior to collection by the scrap dealer. A zero tipping fee for metals provides some separation incentive. About 20% or 64 tons of the 332 tons of scrap metals collected at the landfill last fiscal year, were brought in source - separated and received the zero tipping fee. Clean Wood: All the potential markets we have identified have stated, wood waste must be free of painted and treated wood and most also require that most nails and other be removed. Some potential markets accept only solid lumber and no plywood or other engineered wood products may be accepted even if unpainted and untreated. Rigorous inspection would be 27