Scott Mouw NC DENR 10/22/2013

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1 Scott Mouw NC DENR 10/22/2013

2 Solid Waste Management Versus Materials Management

3 Quote from John Skinner SWANA Newsletter, June 13, 2013 More than ever, solid waste managers need to make the transition from the waste disposal business to a resource management industry. They need to recognize that they are suppliers of raw materials and not only disposers of discarded wastes.

4 The Residential Collection Mix: 1992: Newspaper Glass bottles and jars Aluminum cans Soda bottles Milk jugs Steel cans Then and Now 2013 All of the 1992 list, plus: Magazines and office paper Mixed paper OCC All #1 and #2 plastic bottles Other plastic containers Aerosol cans Gable tops & aseptics Bulky rigid plastics (sometimes)

5 Estimated Per Household Generation Tons of solid waste: 1.04 (2,080 lbs) Recyclables: 0.35 T (700 lbs) Food waste: 0.21 T (420 lbs) Bulky waste T (154 lbs) Leftover solid waste: T (806 lbs) Leftover Solid Waste, 38.8% Food waste, 20.2% Recyclables, 33.7% Bulky Waste, 7.4%

6 Which of these things are waste?

7 Images of Recycling Investments in NC Abbey Green C&D Processing, Winston-Salem Green Pieces, Albemarle Envision Plastics, Reidsville Greenway Recycling, Concord

8 Clear Path, Fayetteville Unifi, Yadkinville Sonoco Recycling, Charlotte GEEP, Durham

9 Examples of Recycled PET Movement in NC Unifi $8 million Repreve polyester manufacturing plant Sonoco MRF, $11 million plant 75 employees Curbside Management MRF, 30 employees Clear Path $75 million PET bottle processing plant Sonoco MRF, $1.5 million plant, 15 employees 9

10 MRFs Serving North Carolina New MRF since 2008 Other Existing MRFs MRF revamped/modernized since

11 Employees NC Private Sector Recycling Employment Trends Private Sector Jobs Public Sector Jobs 15,187 14,490 12,776 11,762 7, Year Approx. 15,200 private sector recycling-related jobs in North Carolina Private sector recycling jobs have increased 4.8 percent since 2008 The total annual payroll for North Carolina recycling businesses is $395 million Forty-eight percent of recycling businesses surveyed anticipate creating more jobs during the next two years Twenty-five percent of businesses surveyed report manufacturing a product using recycled materials

12 Key Trends Declining and changing waste stream Growing secondary materials economy Technological advancements Economic volatility Resistance to tax and fee increases Tighter fiscal situation Demand for more services

13 Responding to the Trends Efficiency Cost Effectiveness Local government solid waste/recycling managers should seek to maintain and deliver services that maximize public value. Key examples: Solid Waste Automation, routing, reduction of disposed tons Careful capital planning of landfill assets Recycling Automation, routing, participation, material mix, new materials Access to MRFs and stable and fair MRF relationships

14 Population / Tons Disposed 15,000,000 North Carolina Solid Waste Disposal Trends North Carolina Solid Waste Disposal 20-Year Forecast 14,000,000 ACTUAL FORECAST 14,298,130 13,000,000 12,653,364 12,000,000? 11,000,000 10,000,000 9,765,229 9,000,000 8,000,000 9,178,068 Waste Disposed Population 7,000,000 6,000,000

15 Paper and Container Material Recovery by NC Local Govts 15

16 Ratio of Local Government Recycling Tons to Total State Disposal

17 Efficiency

18 Bins The Evolution of Curbside Single Stream Recycling w/carts Collection Three Cart System: Garbage, Recycling, and Composting Difference in Performance: Average Bin-based program: 247/household/year Average Cart-based programs: 445/household/year

19 The Convenience Center of the Past and Present Glass Mixed Paper Cardboard Plastics Aluminum & Steel Can Bin Trash Compactor Office Swap Shop & Oil Shed Newspaper Scrap Metal Cooking Oil & Electronics Bulky Trash Trash Pre-Crusher

20 The Convenience Center of the Future: Single Stream Using Compaction

21 Internal Hub and Spoke: Moore County Doubling of recycling tons 75% reduction in travel time Repurposing of containers Use of compactors = Single stream convenience collection = Single stream transfer station Transfer out to Pratt MRF in Fayetteville.

22 Improving Efficiency: Hubs & Spokes Transfer of Recyclables = good candidates for transfer = transferring county = accessible single stream MRF

23 Other Collection Activities Cooking Oil Recycling Carpet Recycling Mercury Lamp Collection Electronics HHW Oil and oil filters

24 Away from Home Recycling 24

25 Measures Measurement extremely important Key measures Cost per ton (SW and Recycling) Cost per household (SW and Recycling) Lbs per household served (SW and Recycling) Set-out rate (Recycling) Participation rate (Recycling)

26 More important to Reduce costs than make money

27 Vision of the Materials Management in NC Recycling and organics diversion on par with garbage (or better). Material flows are optimized. NC economy is more competitive because of efficient access to recovered materials. Long term dependence on landfills and associated liabilities are minimized.

28 Thank you! Scott Mouw Rob Taylor