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Cabarrus County Solid Waste Management Plan 20'12- 2022 Section 4 - Waste Reduction Goal 4. a. Vision Cabarrus County and its municipal partners continue to support and refine the vision and goals for managing solid waste that were established during the previous Plan Updates. The shared vision for the 2012 -2022 planning period remains the same; to support a solid waste management system serving residents, institutions, and businesses that: ■ Provides an increasing opportunity for waste and toxics reduction, reuse, and recycling using appropriate incentives, disincentives, and policies to motivate residents, institutions, and businesses; • Ensures the availability of economical, secure, long -term municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal capacity for that waste which is not yet reduced; • Offers a convenient system for residents, institutions, and businesses to recycle a wide range of materials including special wastes and yard wastes; • Communicates easily understood information to all county waste generators on why they should and how they can reduce and recycle waste; • Provides a plan and adequate facilities for the proper management of disaster debris, • Is supported by a secure, transparent, and equitable funding system to cover the cost of the current and future solid waste management programs; and • Realizes increased efficiencies and cost savings through continued inter - governmental partnerships and an appropriate mix of public and private sector services and facilities. 4. b. Waste Generation Rate Fundamental to obtaining waste reduction goals for solid waste management by the jurisdictions in this plan's area shall be to continue the current programs for each planning element outlined in Section 6 of this plan. According to State Division of Waste Management calculations, these current activities have yielded a per capita generation rate of 1.27 for FY 2011. This is a 46% reduction of the 1.87 rate in 2007 -08 from the time of the last three year update, but still 35% higher when compared to the 0.94 rate in the baseline year of 1991 -92, and 28% higher than the 2010 -11 state average rate of 0.99 tons per capita. However, historically, the baseline and subsequent generation rates have been calculated incorrectly by including ALL C &D and MSW disposed of in Cabarrus County, including the City of Concord, which is NOT part of our planning area. Since the County and other municipalities cannot control what the City plans, we cannot speak to the achievability of the number calculated in the M Attachment number 2 F -7 Page 137