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Cabarrus County Solid Waste Management Plan 2012- 2022 Waste Reduction Goal Sheet, found as Appendix C. We do strongly believe that the County and jurisdictions in the plan will be able to meet the goal set hereunder for the wastes that we do control. An additional difficulty is the state 1991 -92 benchmark for waste generation includes not just MSW, but all LANDIFILLED wastes, including CII and C &D wastes for which local communities traditionally have had much less influence over the reduction and recovery activities and resultant generation data. Because of the large percentage of the total disposed quantity that comes from C &D and CII sectors, it is impossible to have a significant impact on overall reduction without significant efforts to encourage recovery and reporting of this progress. Inherent difficulties in controlling the activities in these sectors causes the wide swings in annual rates shown above. C &D wastes are economically and geographically quite cyclical. The disposal rate may be atypically high in counties which may have a burst of growth, skewing the trends of waste reduction in other sectors. As an extreme example of this fact from the last three year update, Cabarrus County reported that in 2005 -06 the per capita waste generation rate was 2.89, a 100% increase over the previous year, and a tripling from the baseline of 0.94. This spike is attributable to a one -time local historic event: the razing of the huge Cannon Mills /Pillowtex complex in Kannapolis. While there are waste generation totals for C &D, they are also subject to vagaries of accurately reporting the county of origin, and we cannot show any offsetting reductions for there are no requirements for reporting recovery of C &D wastes. This sector also suffers from a limited private market infrastructure for recycled materials. Given the intractable nature of these above factors on the ability of local municipalities in the State to measurably reduce waste generation by the State's 1989 goal of 40% per capita by 2001, and because of the dispiriting effect this has on local communities as they conduct their planning, Cabarrus County recommends that going forward, a additional benchmark standard be added for analysis- -the MSW Waste Diversion Rate; a common planning tool used in most other states. This would look exclusively at MSW disposal and recovery in the sectors over which local governments have the most control, and thus provide better feedback on the measurable progress of program efforts over which most local governments can exert their influence and control. 4. c. Ten -Year Goal The elements listed below have been proposed to report a reduction of waste generation by 40% from the benchmark year by 2022, as calculated in the WASTE REDUCTION GOAL SHEET shown in Appendix C. The following are summarized Intended Actions from Section 6 which will have the greatest potential to meet this recovery goal in Cabarrus County over the next ten years: ➢ Provide 96- gallon carts to most communities to increase residential recycling capacity, variety, and convenience Attachment number 2 F -7 Page 138