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Home My WebLink About12-125RESOLUTION NO. 12-125 A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING TIPPING FEE RATES AT THE ST. LUCIE COUNTY GLADES ROAD LANDFILL INCLUDING PROVIDING FOR SINGLE STREAM RECYCLING AND SOURCE SEPARATED FOOD WASTE; ESTABLISHING RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF THE COUNTY'S FACILITIES; REPEALING AND SUPERSEDING RESOLUTION NO. l 1-040; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of St. Lucie County, Florida, (the "Board"), has made the following determinations: 1. The County owns and operates a solid waste management facility ("Facility") located at 6120 Glades Cut-Off Road in the City of Fort Pierce, Florida. The County's Facility includes a Class I landfill, a disposal area for construction and demolition debris, a recycling center, and related facilities that are used for the processing, recycling, and disposing of various types of solid waste. 2. The County now wishes to use its Facility to process recyclable materials that are delivered to the Facility inn "single stream"- i.e., all of the different types of recyclable material (e.g., paper; plastic; glass; metals) are comingled in a single container. The County also wishes to use its Facility to process source separated food waste. 3. Using the County's Facility for single stream recycling and source separated food waste will provide several benefits to the community. Adding these recycling programs will increase the amount of material that will be beneficially reused, rather than discarded. Increasing the amount of material that is recycled will generate new jobs in the recycling programs operated by the County, as well as new jobs in the private businesses that handle the recycled materials after they are processed by the County. Recycling more material will divert waste from the County's landfill, thus conserving its capacity and extending its life. 4. The County's recycling program will be hurt if excessive amounts of solid waste (e.g., garbage) are comingled with the recyclable materials that are delivered to the County's Facility in a single stream. Such waste will contaminate the recyclable materials and thus degrade their value for resale. Excessively contaminated recyclable materials must be taken to the County's landfill for disposal, rather than being sold and reused as valuable commodities. 5. To ensure the success of its recycling operations with single stream materials, the County wants to caref ully control the quality and quantity of the recyclable materials that are received at the County's recycling center. The need for such controls is especially important during the initial stages of the County's operations with a single stream system, when the County will be working to optimize the Facility's operations. Accordingly, the County's Facility will only accept the single stream recyclable material that are delivered by the hauler who has the exclusive right to collect the County's residential waste. By restricting the use of its Facility in this manner, the County will ensure that the single stream recyclable materials delivered to the Facility have been generated by the County's residents, who have received the County's educational materials concerning the proper way to manage their recyclable materials. Given the County's efforts at public education and training, the County's residents are less likely to place solid waste in their recycling containers, which will help minimize the amount of solid waste and excessively contaminated material received nt the County's recycling center. Restricting the use of the County's Facility also will help ensure that the Facility does not receive more material than the Facility can process properly. 6. The County will restrict the delivery of food waste to the Facility in the same manner and for many of the same reasons that are set forth above. Among other things, the County wants to minimize the potential for contamination of the source separated food waste with inappropriate materials (e.g., metals, plastic, glass, and other non-organic materials). Moreover, the County must restrict the delivery of source separated food waste to the Facility because the Facility has only a very limited capacity to process such waste. 7. On January 18, 2011, the County adopted Resolution No. 11-040 that established the "tipping fees" (i.e. rates) the County will charge for the processing and disposal of solid waste at the County's Facility. The County now wishes to establish the tipping fees that the County will charge for processing (a) recyclable materials that are delivered to the Facility in a single stream and (b) source separated food waste. Accordingly, the tipping fees for these materials, as well as the tipping fees for other materials, are set forth in Sections A and B below. 8. The tipping fees established in Sections A and 6 below, are reasonable and appropriate-i.e., the rates fairly compensate the County for the services it provides when processing solid waste and recyclable materials at the County's Facility. The limitations set forth herein concerning the use of the County's Facility are in the best interest of the public and they are necessary for the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of St. Lucie County, Florida, that the following tipping fees for use of the County's Facility, and the following limitations on the use of the County's Facility are hereby approved and adopted: SECTION A 1. Minimum fees for disposal of all solid waste. a. Automobiles and utility vehicles: Regular fee $2.50 per load Uncovered $5.00 per load b. Vans, trucks, including open bed pick-up trucks, trailers: Regular fee $4.50 per load Uncovered fee $9.00 per load 2. Tonnage rates, applicable to all loads in excess of the minimums set forth in paragraph 1. n. Class Iwaste -all solid waste, except: yard waste, construction and demolition debris, septage, white goods, hazardous waste, tires, special waste and any solid waste that cannot be disposed of in the county's Landfill under nn applicable federal, state or local regulation: Regular fee $41.00 per ton Uncovered fee $82.00 per ton b. Class III waste -construction and demolition debris, building materials, and packaging materials: Regular fee $29.00 per ton Uncovered fee $58.00 per ton c. Yard Waste -vegetative matter resulting from landscaping, yard maintenance, and land clearing activities: Regular fee $26.00 per ton Uncovered fee $52.00 per ton d. Whole tires: Minimum fee $0.80 per automobile tires smaller than 20" rim size for disposal of up to 5 automobile tires Tonnage rates, applicable for disposal of more than 5 automobile tires (less than 20" rim size): Regular fee $ 85.00 per ton Uncovered f ee $170.00 per ton e. Shredded or split tires: Regular fee $ 51.00 per ton Uncovered fee $102.00 per ton f. Large tires: all tires 20" rim size and larger including f loot tires, truck tires and off-road tires: Regular fee $300.00 per ton (No cover required) g. White goods and other appliances: Secured fee Unsecured fee h. Clean Wood: Regular fee Uncovered fee NOTE: $2.50 per load $5.00 per load $15.00 per ton $30.00 per ton Pressure treated wood and painted wood must be handled as Class I waste. Single Stream Recyclable Materials: $55.00 per ton NOTE: The materials will be processed into a dual stream and returned o the hauler for marketing. Single stream recyclable materials will only be accepted from a hauler that has an exclusive franchise for the collection of the residential waste generated in the unincorporated areas of the County. J~ Source Separated Food Waste $55.00 per ton NOTE: Source separated food waste will only be accepted from n hauler that has an exclusive franchise for the collection of the residential waste generated in the unincorporated areas of the County. 3. Special Wastes -wastes requiring special handling including but not limited to ashes, asbestos, and contaminated soils: Regular fee $ 70.00 per ton Uncovered fee $140.00 per ton A minimum one ton fee will be charged for the disposal of all special wastes. 4. Spent f luorescent light bulbs: $.20 per bulb for St. Lucie County businesses $.40 per bulb for non-county businesses 5. Fees for weighing trucks at the Facility's scale house. Misc. Weight determination: $2.50 per weighing 6. Out of County Waste: The disposal of solid waste generated outside of St. Lucie County must be approved by the Solid Waste Director or his designee. SECTION 6. Municipalities and approved operators shall pay the fees speci ied in Section A of this Resolution on a monthly basis, following their receipt of the County's bill for the use of the County's solid waste management facility. SECTION C. All other users of the County's solid waste management facilities shall pay the fees specified in Section A of this Resolution when they deliver their solid waste or recyclable materials to the St. Lucie County Landfill, unless the user has entered into a Landfill Use Agreement with the County and posted the required security. SECTION D. Effective August 1, 2012, this Resolution shall repeal, supersede, and replace Resolution No. 11-040. SECTION E. All of the rates set out in this Resolution shall take effect on August 1, 2012. After motion and second, the vote on this Resolution was ns follows: Chairman Tod Mowery AYE Vice Chair Pauln A. Lewis AYE Commissioner Frannie Hutchinson AYE Commissioner Chris Craft AYE PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED this 19th day of June 2012. ATTEST: BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA Deputy Clerl~~.~` ~ r~s~ ,, r ¢ r .. 4 , ".r. _ i'` ... N. F t~ ~ , ~, ., .~ C A: ~C ~} L `:~ BY: Chairman APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS: BY : ~--•"~ ~~ ~~ County Attorney