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PROGRESS REPORT #2 - STUDY TO OFFER
OPTIONAL SMALLER RESIDENTIAL SOLID
WASTE BINS
Mobility and Infrastructure Committee
June 13, 2024
Public Works Department
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2 • January 11, 2024 - the Mobility and Infrastructure Committee received a progress report on staff’s study to offer optional smaller residential solid waste bins.
• The Committee directed staff to continue working and return to the Committee in about six months with another report that includes:
Focus on financials and potential savings for residents. Consider a pilot program of 64-gallon bins.
Feedback from Athens Services on their contamination
observations in Riverside.
BACKGROUND
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3 • R3 Consulting Group, Inc. analyzed
financial impacts of implementing a 64-
gallon bin size, and suggested pilot
programs/alternatives for the City to
consider
• R3 will present their report
CONSULTANT ANALYSIS
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4 • City of Modesto
– Population 218,069
– 57,000 residential solid waste accountholders
– Offers three 90-gallong bins for monthly rate of $56.01 • Since 1999, has offered a program for neighbors to share one set of solid waste services (trash, organics, recycling)
– Limited to “next door neighbor” homes, multi-family (5 or more units, or commercial businesses
– Accounts must be in good standing
– Does not supersede rental agreements
– Only one customer is billed for service (“Party B”)
MODESTO SHARED SERVICE PROGRAM
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5 – Non-billed account (“Party A”) applies to City requesting service cancelation and to share with Party B for one of the following reasons:
• Total # of people residing in homes is less than 4
• Not enough space for all containers
• Financial hardship (income is less than $24,000)
• Commercial businesses next to each other
– Party B is billed by and pays the City
– Party A reimburses Party B
– Audited every 2 years
– Currently 94 participants
MODESTO SHARED SERVICE PROGRAM
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6 • Financial benefit to participants
• Mobile Home parks may have
limited space for bins
• Seniors living alone and
generate less trash
POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF PILOTING
SHARED SERVICE PROGRAM
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7 • “Audit Team” conducts quarterly checks in Riverside • Places notification tag on bin
• October 2023 observations by Audit Team spot checks:
ATHENS SERVICES CONTAMINATION OBSERVATIONS
% ContaminatedContaminatedObservations
0.2%105,366Trash
0.9%141,594Recycling
4.5%481,070Organics
0.9%728,030Total
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8 • Driver reports of contaminated commodities
ATHENS SERVICES CONTAMINATION OBSERVATIONS
Recycling
Contaminated
Organics
Contaminated
25110October 2023
23147November 2023
13162December 2023
21185January 2024
19128February 2024
24157March 2024
125889Total
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9 Costs to process waste are incurred through tip fees at the Agua Mansa Materials Recovery Facility/Transfer Station (MRF) Trash - $66.17/ton
Residential recycling - $73.17/ton
Mixed Organics (bagged food + green waste) - $105.40/ton Not every instance of contamination results in contaminated loads Spot checks and driver observations are important
WHY DOES CONTAMINATION MATTER?
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10 • Contamination may mean some portion of the load is handled as trash
• Example:
– A green waste truck delivers a 10-ton load to the MRF • Received and processed at the green waste tip fee of $105.40 x 10 tons = $1,054
– Contamination is identified by the MRF
• The spoiled 5 tons called “residue” is then transferred and processed as trash at the trash tip fee of $66.17 x 5 tons = $330.85
– The total cost to the City for this single trash truck is now $1,054 + $330.85 = $1,384.50
WHY DOES CONTAMINATION MATTER?
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11 Strategic Priority 5 – High Performing Government
Cross-Cutting Threads
STRATEGIC PLAN ALIGNMENT
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12 That the Mobility and Infrastructure Committee receive progress report #2 and provide feedback on offering
optional smaller residential solid waste bins.
RECOMMENDATION
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