The recently released N.C. Solid Waste and Materials Management Report shows that Orange County landfilled an average of 3.3 pounds per capita per day in fiscal year 2009-10, a reduction of 56 percent since the base year of 1991-92, representing the best waste-reduction rate in the state for the year and the county’s best ever since measurement began in 1996.
In 1997, the county and the three towns adopted a waste-reduction goal of 61percent per capita and have made steady progress toward that goal ever since.Â
The report can be found at www.wastenotnc.org/swhome/AR09_10/AR09_10.pdf