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,, <br />a. Continued adverse impacts on the same, long-suffering neighborhood; <br />b. Possible need to condemn. property; <br />c. Limited life expectancy of site. <br />Advantages: <br />a. Proximate to primary sources of waste generation; <br />b. Readily accessible via major transportation corridors; <br />c. Convenient to current salid waste operations; <br />d. Adjacent to property owned by landfill and potentially available for expansion of <br />solid waste operations (MRF, transfer station). <br />SUGGESTED ACTION: Accept Eubanks Road as an interim option. Develop a C&D <br />landfill there but pledge to thoroughly seek other sites, with the stated intention of fording <br />an alternative by the time the current MSW landfill is projected to close. (Simply choosing <br />to bury C&D in the MSW landfill is also an option, but one that's costly and tends to <br />impose greater time pressure on the process of developing alternative sites and <br />approaches.) <br />4. C&D Recycling <br />We need to go beyond current efforts to explore C&D recycling. Greater emphasis <br />must be placed on developing a creative, proactive, comprehensive C&D recycling <br />program. This might include: <br />a. A source separation ordinance, perhaps including on-site burial in some cases, <br />that would 'increase the efficiency of recycling efforts; <br />b. Exploration of synergies such as that between school and government use of <br />mulch, the need to ford good alternatives to burning debris from site clearing, and <br />construction scraps brought to the landfill. Similar wholistic approaches can be taken <br />toward agricultural waste, municipal biosolids (sludge), and other supposedly unwanted <br />byproducts generated within the county; <br />c. Explore whether C&D recycling is a viable economic development opportunity, <br />and whether it should be pursued and sited as such. <br />SUGGESTED ACTION: Seek a grant from the N.C. Department of Commerce to <br />develop a C&D site-separation recycling ordinance (unknown in the state) and to explore <br />the economic viability of C&D recycling in relation to current and projected markets and <br />as a public, private, or public/private venture. This would include studying what is done <br />elsewhere within and beyond North Carolina, and would be a joint undertaking of the <br />Economic Development Commission, the current solid waste staff, and the new Solid <br />Waste Advisory Board. The grant application deadline is Oct. 29. <br />