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as well as on continuing the County's successful and aggressive recycling <br />efforts that are reducing the amount of waste to be landfilled. <br />2. Complete, adopt, and implement the Solid Waste Plan currently being <br />developed by the Solid Waste Work Group consisting of county and <br />municipal elected officials, staff, and members of SWAB. <br />3. As the Solid Waste Plan recommendations are implemented and staff and <br />financial resources become available, reconsider and re-evaluate the use of <br />practical, proven alternative waste processing technologies once the <br />transfer station is completed and operating, and the current landfill is <br />closed out. The transfer station would likely be required as part of any <br />future alternative waste process system should such be developed in the <br />foreseeable future. <br />4. Based in part on UNC's commitment to reducing its carbon footprint, <br />explore with appropriate University staff the potential for using the current <br />coal co-generation plant to bum MSW (processed as refused derived fuel) <br />from Orange County or for building a new stand-alone facility to combust <br />waste to power the Carolina North campus. <br />5. Given that Orange County's waste stream is too small to readily justify its <br />own waste combustion unit, and the likely ten- to twenty-year drastic <br />reduction in available landfill space within a practical transportation <br />distance from Orange County, explore with other local governments, <br />electric generating utilities, and other relevant parties in and around the <br />Triangle J region, options for regional solutions to implement alternative <br />waste processing technologies. This exploration could include conducting <br />a regional waste summit in the next eighteen months wherein these <br />options were clearly laid out for consideration and future planning. <br />The Solid Waste Advisory Board hopes that this review is useful to you in your <br />deliberations. We look forward to hearing your response to the GBB Report and are <br />ready to continue exploration of alternatives if and when the BOCC wishes to do so. <br />2 <br />4 <br />