Montgomery County Division of Solid Waste Services

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Montgomery CountyDivision of Solid Waste Services

• Business Recycling in
• Montgomery County

COG Recycling Committee December 1, 2005
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Waste Generation by Sector FY05
1,261,134 tons of waste generated during Fiscal
Year 2005
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FY05 Recycling Rate by Sector
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Commercial Recycling Rate (FY00-FY05)
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Commercial Waste Stream Analysis
Based on DB Business Database January 2005
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History of Montgomery Countys Recycling
Regulations

• March 1993 Recycling becomes mandatory through
  ER 109-92AM
• April 1994 Yard trim ban takes effect
• FY00 Recycling rate 36
• February 8, 2005 ER 15-04AM (supersedes
  ER109-92AM) and ER18-04 enacted
• February 8, 2005 Enforcement commences on
  ER15-04AM
• FY05 Recycling rate 41
• February 8, 2006 Enforcement commences on
  ER18-04

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Program Strategies

• Educate ALL businesses and monitor compliance
  with ER15-04AM and ER18-04
• Target select business types
• Provide technical assistance for implementing and
  improving waste reduction, recycling and buying
  recycled programs
• Recognize outstanding achievements and promote to
  others

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Executive Regulation 15-04AM

• Required materials
• Mixed or sorted paper
• Commingled materials (or sorted by type)
• Scrap metal
• Yard trim
• Christmas trees
• Requires businesses to submit recycling and waste
  reduction plan
• Requires businesses to file an annual recycling
  report
• Large-sized businesses February 1st
• Medium-sized businesses March 1st
• Small-sized businesses Within 60 days of
  written request by DSWS every year thereafter,
  due March 1st
• Property owners of multi-tenant facilities
  March 1st
• Education/waste reduction component

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Executive Regulation 15-04AM

• Program verification
• Contracts and invoices for collection and
  disposition of materials to be recycled
• Recycling containers
• Location and capacity
• Labeling
• Education requirements
• Businesses self-hauling recyclable materials to a
  recycling facility
• Obtain scale-house documentation
• Businesses contracting for recycling collection
  services
• Businesses must use a MC licensed collector
• Collectors servicing commercial properties
• Take source-separated recyclable materials to a
  recycling facility
• Notify generators/County of contaminated
  recycling
• Provide copy of their MC license to customers
  annually

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Executive Regulation 18-04

• Licensed Collectors, Haulers and all other
  persons using County acceptance facilities for
  the disposal of solid waste
• Must separately collect waste set out for
  disposal from materials set out in separate
  containers for recycling
• Any collector who observes, or reasonably should
  have observed, recyclables in solid waste that
  have been set out for disposal, must notify the
  customer responsible and the County
• Notification will include
• Name of business, name of responsible agent
  notified, date, time, address, nature of the
  problem and a suggested remedy
• Collectors are prohibited from collecting
  recyclables observed, or which should reasonably
  have been observed, to be mixed in with trash set
  out for disposal without providing such
  notification

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Executive Regulation 18-04

• Disposal of Recyclables
• Haulers, Collectors and other persons must..
• Deliver solid waste acceptable for disposal only
  to disposal facilities
• Must not deliver solid waste acceptable for
  disposal to any recycling facility
• Deliver recyclables acceptable for recycling only
  to recycling facilities
• May not deliver for disposal to any solid waste
  acceptance facility any solid waste that is
  acceptable for recycling

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Non-Residential On-Site Visits(FY00-FY06)
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Enforcement Actions
2005 through 11/18/05
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SORRT can Help!

• On-site training
• Seminars/Workshops
• Special events
• Educational materials
• Regulation handbook
• Posters
• Labels
• Brochures
• Much more!

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Outreach Materials
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Educational Materials
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Interactive - SORRT Website
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Education Start Early
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Continuing Recycling Outreach
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Direct On-Site Assistance/Model Programs

• My Organic Market, Rockville

Convenient and easy access for staff and
customers
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Cooperative Recycling and Refuse Collection
Programs
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Business Recycling Seminars
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Services Offered - Waste Audits
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Recycling Awareness Week - 2005
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Questions?

• Montgomery County
• Department of Public Works and Transportation
• Division of Solid Waste Services
• 101 Monroe Street, 6th Floor
• Rockville, MD 20850
• [phone] phone [phone] fax
• Website www.montgomerycountymd.gov
• Email recycle_at_montgomerycountymd.gov