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Section 1 Geographic and Solid Waste Stream Evaluation According to the County Waste Disposal Report provided by the Solid Waste Section, Cabarrus County and its municipalities disposed of approximately 136,245 total tons of waste in FY 1998-99. This tonnage included 19,236 tons of C&D waste disposed of at the County's C&D landfill, 107,726 tons of waste landfilled at the LMS landfill, and 9,283 tons of waste transported out of the County for disposal at other facilities. An estimate of the waste disposed by sector is shown in Table 2. These calculations are based on tonnage of C&D reported in the County Waste Disposal Report and an estimate of residential and non-residential sectors provided by county staff. Table 2. Estimated Waste Disposed by Sector, FY 1998-99 PERCENT OF TYPE OF WASTE TONS WASTE STREAM Residential 44,799 33% Non-residential 72,210 53 % Construction and Demolition 19,236 14% TOTAL 136,245 I 100% As shown above, the county estimates that of the total waste disposed, 33% is residential waste, 53% is non-residential (commercial, industrial, and institutional), and 14% is C&D. This represents a substantial change in the percentage of waste stream composition compared to that reported in the 1997 version of the plan. Most notable is the increase in C&D waste, which increased from 1% in FY 1996-97 to 14% in FY 1998-99. It should be noted, however, that only the C&D values are based on actual recorded tonnages. Residential and non-residential tonnages (and corresponding percentage of waste stream) are based on estimates. The major nonresidential waste generators in the county are Fieldcrest Cannon (now Pillowtex), Phillip Morris, Cabarrus Memorial Hospital, Stanley Works, Pas & Seymour, and Coming. Land clearing and inert debris (LCID) is handted by the County and each municipality. Land clearing debris is chipped by each entity and used for mulching and composting. The county does not have a current compositional study, at this time, of its own residential waste. Therefore, Table 3 is taken from Volume I of the North Carolina Recycling and Solid Waste Management Plan. This state study shows that the most prevalent materials in the residential waste stream are paper, plastics, and organics. Using the tons of residential waste that Cabarrus County and its municipalities estimated were disposed in FY 1998-99, the amounts of different materials in the local waste stream can be calculated.