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Aluminum/Bi-metal cans - 2 or 3 bin container, $80 rental per month, $80 haul fee to <br />Speedweigh's facility on Stultz Road for processing, payment to the City of $0.20 to $0.30 per <br />pound for aluminum cans, nothing for bi-metai cans. <br /> <br />Glass - 3 bin container for clear/brown/green glass. $80 rental for the container per month, $125 <br />haul fee to empty the container, and a fee of $25 per ton to process the material. <br /> <br />Plastic - 2 or 3 bin container for plastics, milk jugs, soft drink containers, etc. $80 rental fee per <br />month for the container, $125 haul fee to empty the container, and $60 per ton to handle/process <br />the material. <br /> <br />Newspaper - $80 container rental per month, $125 haul fee, no processing fee, depending on <br />market conditions. <br /> <br />The glass, plastics, and newspaper would likely be transported to Roanoke, or other location <br />based upon available markets. <br /> <br />Montgomery County Visit <br /> <br />On Wednesday, February 28th, Jeff and I visited the materials recovery facility/transfer station <br />operation for Montgomery County, Virginia, which serves the Blacksburg, Virginia Tech, <br />Montgomery County areas. Blacksburg currently has weekly residential garbage collection <br />along with weekly collection of co-mingled recyclables (cans, glass, plastics, <br />newspaper/magazines), for which the residents pay $24 to $26 per month. The recyclables are <br />collected by a separate truck with newspaper/magazines going into one bin, and aluminum, bi- <br />metal cans, glass, and plastic going into another bin. At the materials recovery facility, the paper <br />products are processed on the floor and with manual picking/sorting stations positioned along a <br />conveyor. The material is then baled and stored until a truckload quantity is accumulated. <br />Current shipments of newspaper go to Atlanta, Georgia. The cans, plastics, and glass are sorted <br />by a combination of electro-mechanical means along with hand-picking. Glass is sorted by color <br />- clear/green/brown, cans are sorted by aluminum/bi-metal, and plastics are sorted by grade/type. <br />The glass is crushed, stored in outside bins, and shipped when a sufficient quantity is stored. <br />Cans and plastics are baled and also shipped in full truckloads. <br /> <br />Conclusions/Recommendation <br /> <br />In reviewing the operation of the Montgomery County facility and discussions with their <br />personnel, several keys points are clearly evident which need to be considered as we move <br />forward with the City's program. Two key issues involve availability of markets and <br />quantity/quality of materials. With a quantity (tractor-trailer load) of high quality materials, <br />market value of the materials becomes such that shipping within a several hundred mile radius <br />can be cost-effective, such as the case with Montgomery County shipping trailer loads (40,000 <br />lbs.) of baled newspaper to Atlanta. The operation of the City's manned drop off sites gives <br />us-neither - small quantities of material are generated, often contaminated or co-mingled with <br />undesirable materials which must be hand picked, or risk contaminating the entire load, in which <br />case the material will likely be disposed of in a landfill. These issues are not peculiar to the <br />City's operation - most unmanned drop off sites experience similar problems. As a result of <br /> <br /> <br />