Deluxe Recycling and Disposal

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Deluxe Recycling and Disposal

• Skagit County Commissioners
• May 22nd, 2007

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Who is ?

• Principals Larry McCarter Steve Snell
• McCarter Conceived (1994), Designed Built
  Recycling and Disposal Services, Inc. (RDS)
• RDS Handles 50 of Whatcom County Waste (100,000
  tons of MSW last year).
• Competition and large scale recycling to Whatcom
  County
• 1996 110/ton .. 2007 75/ton
• Whatcom residents save over 3M/yr. in lowered
  costs!
• Skagit rates in low to mid 80/ton range
• Experienced in
• Keeping rates low through increased efficiency
• High levels of recycling
• High levels of customer service
• Adherence to all County, State Federal laws
• Planned successors to Cimarron Transfer
  Recycling

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Why we are here

• Fall 2006
• Skagit County issued a comprehensive RFP to build
  and run a new County transfer station.
• No plausible responses received
• Primary reason due to Cimarron contract and
  reference in RFP
• January 2007
• County staff contacted Larry McCarter
• Staff indicated disappointment in lack of
  responses
• Asked Mr. McCarter why he didnt respond
• Invited Mr. McCarter to come in and share his
  thoughts and suggestions
• Deluxe prepared for the meeting
• Purchased option to acquire Cimarron Transfer and
  Recycling
• Engaged Mortenson construction to begin working
  on plans to co-locate Cimarron capability within
  a new transfer station on county site
• February 2007
• Presented Cimarron co-located win/win proposal
• Build new facility, hire all employees, locate
  Material Recovery equipment on county site, turn
  over keys in 20 to 30 years
• March 2007
• Staff reported that the Commissioners were not
  interested

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Purchase ofCimarron Transfer and Recycling

• Agreement defines MSW recycling role within the
  Comprehensive Skagit Waste Management Plan
• 30 year contract term
• Outlines county waste cooperation with Cimarron
• Starts with unincorporated county MSW waste
• Official designation for County waste recycling
  and handling
• County has pre-approved residual waste shipment
  to landfill
• Payment to county of 24/ton system fee
• Ensures that County incinerator debt is serviced
• Enables maintenance of existing county recycle
  programs
• Ensures existing County Administration is
  maintained
• Adheres to Skagit County Waste Management Plan
• Significantly assists County goals to increase
  recycling to 50
• Helps to privatize and bring efficiency to county
  assigned roles that are synchronized with the
  plan
• A signed County agreement that adheres to stated
  policy and goals

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Continuing onward

• Reluctantly, we began planning to build Deluxe
  Recycling as a standalone entity
• Reached out to city officials
• We identified several candidate sties
• Port (revisited)
• Mount Vernon (2 sites)
• Swinomish Nation
• Farm to Market Road
• Sedro Woolley
• We selected Sedro Woolley
• Best location for maximum enhancement of the
  overall system
• 43 acre site
• Local government very supportive of bringing in
  new business

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Deluxe Recycling Plans

• 30,000 sqft. state of art facility with Offices,
  Maintenance bldg and Scale House
• Recycling educational facility
• Supports 25-30 new operational jobs
• Automated machinery for extraction of commodity
  recyclables
• Landfill reductions via Composting, Hog Fuel,
  plastics, cardboard, aluminum
• Residuals then shipped to landfill
• Higher level and quality of public service for
  self haulers
• A clean, safe and convenient facility to handle
  waste recycling

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Ariel Photo of Site
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Site Plan Example
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View from Jameson St.
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Building Interior Example
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What is MSW composting?

• Feedstock includes MSW, Biosolids, food wastes,
  yard waste, construction/demo wastes, etc.
• System automatically breaks bags open
• Pickers sort out commodities such as plastic,
  paper, tin, aluminum, cardboard, wood
• Automated system pulls out metal, glass,
  separates organic material
• Organics go into environmentally controlled
  vessels for several days
• Air is recycled and any exhaust is biofiltered,
  leachate is collected/disposed
• Microorganisms do their thing!
• End product is ready for reuse

Sorting Line
Processing
Vessel Composting
Curing Area
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Deluxe Recycling Services

• Process, Recycle Disposal of MSW
• Rural Skagit County 40,000 tpy
• Household garbage
• Construction/Demo 10-20,000 tpy
• Concrete, Wood, Asphalt, etc.
• Open to public
• High level of service
• Yard wastes
• Free recycling drop off

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Schedule

• Secure property
• Pre-application process
• Submit building application
• SEPA
• Site designation
• Operational October 2007

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Appendix
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Why we are here

• County issued a comprehensive RFP to build and
  run the County transfer station.
• No plausible responses received
• Primary reason due to Cimarron contract
• Gary Sorenson contacted Larry McCarter the first
  week of January
• Mr. Sorenson indicated disappointment in lack of
  responses
• Asked Mr. McCarter why he didnt respond
• Invited Mr. McCarter to come in and share his
  thoughts and suggestions
• Larry McCarter and Steve Snell prepared for the
  meeting
• Purchased non-refundable option to acquire
  Cimarron Transfer and Recycling
• Engaged Mortenson construction to begin working
  on plans to co-locate Cimarron capability within
  a new transfer station on county site.

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Why we are here (cont.)

• Mr. McCarter and Snell met with Skagit County
  public works Feb. 9th, 2007 for a win/win
  proposal
• Mr. Sampley, Brookings and Sorenson present
• Explained our first option was to work with the
  County, then run standalone and lastly seek
  designation out of County
• Presented graphical conceptual of the combined
  recycling and transfer station on county
  property.
• Proposed a new 40,000 sqft. transfer station
• Agreed to run/build the new transfer station,
  hire the employees, procure MRF and
  purchase/lease land adjacent to current facility
  for in-vessel composting
• Proposal response was encouraging
• Mr. Sampley said that he would bring up our
  proposal at the very next Commissioners meeting
• County staff immediately asked us to join Mr.
  Sorenson for a tour of the current facility
• A couple of weeks later, Mr. Sampley contacted
  Mr. Snell saying that the commissioners had
  decided to build their own station
• No Commissioner meeting minutes indicate our
  proposal was ever presented to the Board.