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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 01-04-1993 - VII-C 1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No V1S- °C. ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: January 4, 1993 SUBJECT: Solid Waste Management Goals DEPARTMENT County Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING YES NO X ATTACHMENT(S) INFORMATION CONTACT 12/8/92 Memo from Chapel Hill Don Willhoit Solid Waste Agenda Committee TELEPHONE NUMBER Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Mebane 227-2031 Durham 688-7331 PURPOSE: To receive information about the development of solid waste management goals. BACKGROUND: The local governments that comprise the Orange Regional Landfill Owners' Group have for some months been considering the establishment of solid waste management goals and objectives. A committee of three members of the Chapel Hill Town Council met and developed, for discussion by the full Council, a set of solid waste goals for Chapel Hill based on the goals established by the State of North Carolina. The consensus of the members at the most recent LOG meeting (December 16, 1992) was that each local government should develop its own set of solid waste management goals. These would be brought to the LOG with the intent of working out a common set of goals for the LOG. The outcome would likely be a tiered approach with a set of goals agreed upon by all jurisdictions, and other sets of goals pertinent to . . specific jurisdictions. It is suggested that comments be solicited from the Orange County Solid Waste Committee as the County develops its set of solid waste management goals. RECOMMENDATION(S) : Receive as information. 2 MEMORANDUM TO: Carrboro Board of Aldermen 1i Orange County Commissioners � )i Hillsborough Board of Commissioners !Jt FROM: Chapel Hill Mayor's Solid Waste Agendl. mmittee: X21/ Joyce Brown, Mark Chilton, Alan Elmer�� J SUBJECT: Materials Developed for Discussion for Tuesday, December 8 Chapel Hill Town Council Work Session on Solid Waste DATE: December 8, 1992 Attached are the materials the Chapel Hill Mayor's Solid Waste Agenda Committee has developed for the Council 's upcoming Solid Waste Work Session to-be held at 5 : 30 pm, Tuesday, December 8 in the Chapel Hill Town Hall, first-floor Conference Room. You are cordially invited to attend. The solid waste goals as well as the questions concerning LOG are only proposed for discussion. The goals are based on the North Carolina Recycling and Solid Waste Management Plan developed by the Division of Solid Waste Management and Office of Waste Reduction dated February 1992 . Additions or changes made by our Agenda Committee are in bold and those things we have eliminated are marked through. The questions dealing with the Landfill Owners ' Group (LOG) • cover a number of issues that have been raised recently by citizens and elected officials regarding the process for dealing with solid waste management in Orange County. The papers that come out of the Chapel Hill Town Council work session will be forwarded to you. We anticipate that a January intergovernmental work session will be set to continue this work. cc: Chapel Hill Solid Waste Reduction Committee Cal Horton, Chapel Hill Town Manager John Link, Orange County ,Manager Robert Morgan, Carrboro Town Manager Eric Swanson, Hillsborough Town Manager • 3 C SOLID WASTE GOALS - Y ' / SECTION ONE - INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT PLANNING Goal 1 : To plan for and implement solid waste management systems involving an integrated mixture of program components giving priority to waste reduction. The systems should function so as to handle solid waste in the most efficient way possible and in a manner which is appropriate in terms of environment, public health, cost and resource conservation. A process of evaluation for efficiency, cost effectiveness, resource conservation, environmental protection and public health will be established. Goal 2 : To develop cooperative strategies to manage the waste within a region where appropriate and consistent with local waste reduction and cost effectiveness strategies, and that minimizes environmental health hazards, conserves natural resources and energy, and minimizes total costs. Goal 3 : To develop, where necessary or efficient, new institutional relationships To better define the relationships of the governing bodies of Orange County in order to plan, coordinate, implement, and regulate the programs and systems needed for effective solid waste management.. Goal 4 : To effectively involve the public, through public hearings, appropriate Town committees, and other means, in integrated solid waste management planning and program development by including the public and addressing public concerns and values at each stage of the decision making process. SECTION TWO - UTILIZING WASTE STREAM CHARACTERIZATION DATA Goal 5 : To gather useful, accurate and appropriate data on the amount and nature of the waste stream as needed to assist in the planning of solid waste management programs and facilities . SECTION THREE - COLLECTION, TRANSFER, AND DISPOSAL OF WASTE Goal 6 : To ensure the provision of reasonably convenient, cost- effective, and sanitary waste collection service to all residents, businesses, and industry in North Carolina Chapel Hill, preferably regular household collection from all residential . customers, household collection or access, to staffed convenience centers provided to all rural , customers; and adequate collection arrangements available to all: local businesses and industry. Goal 7 : To evaluate the potential for improved waste management through incorporating transfer stations into the integrated waste management system where appropriate investigating and comparing source separation with collection and disposal technologies using efficiency, cost, resource conservation, protection of the environment and public health as the evaluation criteria. 4 Goal 8 : Ta- ensure that adequate , environmentally sound disposal capacity is available in the present and ideally for the next -tee twenty years. Goal 9 : To undergo proactive planning, site screening, site selection, and design of required new landfill capacity and provide operation of existing facilities that will meet all federal, state and local requirements and reduce the risk of environmental degradation. Goal 10 : To evaluate tie pete -tial for energy recovery from the waste stream and incorporate waste to cagy tcchnelogy into Goal 11 : To effectively reduce and eventually eliminate littering and illegal dumping of solid waste within a local government' s jurisdiction Chapel Hill. SECTION FOUR - ALTERNATIVES TO DISPOSAL: SOURCE REDUCTION, REUSE, RECYCLING AND COMPOSTING Goal 12: To reduce the amount of North Carolina' s waste requiring development and expansion of recycling, rcusc, and source reduction v1. t Through sound management practices and through the development and expansion of source reduction, reuse, and recycling opportunities, reduce the amount of Chapel Hill' s waste requiring disposal. Goal 13 : To assess, develop and implement education programs , policies and incentives which promote source reduction and reuse and discourage waste generation. Goal 14 : To increase the number and types of recycling services provided to maximize recovery of materials, while minimizing recycling system costs. Goal 15 : To effectively manage organic waste materials in an environmentally sound manner which yields a useable product and diverts a significant portion of the waste stream from disposal in MSW facilities and cost effective manner which diverts that waste stream from MSW facilities. Goal 16 : Design, develop .'and implement public information, awareness and education programs designed to increase public awareness of the need for, and public involvement in the implementation of source reduction, recycling and composting, and to promote environmentally sound and cost-effective integrated solid waste management. • p -F (76- q tf 3'1' V` /-G' S SECTION SIX - SPECIAL WASTE MANAGEMENT Goal 17 : To evaluate and establish alternatives for the management of materials which have been banned from landfilling or which pose special management problems, with an emphasis on reducing the need to handle such materials. SECTION SEVEN - ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS Goal 18: To budget sufficient funds to cover existing and proposed solid waste management programs, including staffing for public education programs, recycling, reduction, and composting programs, etc . Goal 19 : To determine the full costs involved in providing solid waste management services in order to determine how to set equitable rates which pass the cost of services on to the public and provide the basis for enterprise fund development. SECTION EIGHT - IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES Goal 20 : To cvaluatc the options for assuring availability of the waste stream fo- solid waste managcment opacity utilization. 6 The Role of LOG 1. W hat is the purpose of the LOG? Is it (or should It be) a solid waste utility? II. What should the role of LOG be in decision making? is LOG like one of our advisory Boards? or perhaps more like OWASA? III. How should the LOG change in light of the changes in the nature of solid waste management and planning since its inception? Structure and composition of the.LOG I. Is there a better way to resolve differences of opinion among the three governing boards? H Should we have more people on the LOG? more elected officials? _ private citizens? ex-officio town board representatives? III. What role should Hillsborough play? IV. Does the LOG operate efficiently in terms of staff time and costs? LOG Funding I. Are the LOG's two functions at odds with one another if the LOG's budget is dependent on waste entering the landfill is it possible for LOG to also actively attempt to prevent waste from entering the landfill? do we need to split the LOG into two different boards? Role of the LOG staff I. What is the relationship of the town (or the county) staff to the LOG? IL What is the role of LOG staff in developing policy? Odds and ends I. How can we overcome a lack of accountability to the public (perceived or real)? Ii. Is the proposed new name acceptible? is ISWAC fundamentally harder to say than LOG? will OWASA be jealous of a new 5 letter accronym? •