MCSWMP Update March 2007

Contents
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Appendices

Morris County Solid Waste Generation - Plan Implementation Ten-Year Projection
Morris CountyGenerated Disposal Tonnages by Year for 1995-2006 - MCMUA - Parsippany and Mt. Olive Transfer Stations Combined as Compared to NJDEP Data
Inventory of Morris County Solid Waste Facilities
Guidelines for Evaluation of Solid Waste Facility Requests to be Included in the Morris County Solid Waste Management Plan
Enforcement Documentation
Sample Model Municipal Planning Board Recycling Ordinance for Multifamily Housing Developments That Require Subdivisions or Site Plan Approval
Sample Recycling Status Report for Generators

Solid Waste Management
Plan Amendment
Morris County, New Jersey

Response to the January 2006 New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Solid Waste Management and Sludge Management State Plan Update - March 2007

1. Compliance with State Plan Requirements

According to the Department letter dated February 9, 2006, as described below, the Morris County SWMP must be consistent with the State Plan:

"As noted in the State Plan, each county or district shall, within one year of the adoption of the State Plan (January 3, 2007), adopt and submit to the Department, an updated district solid waste plan. The plan must demonstrate consistency with the State Plan. Further, the district plans shall reiterate the district plan requirements contained in N.J.S.A. 13:1E-21. Specifically, revised plan updates shall include, but not be limited to, the following components:"

Morris County's responses to each of the six required plan components follow.

1) "Designation of the department, unit or committee of the county government (or district in the case of the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission) to supervise the implementation of the district plan;"

Morris County Response:
In an amendment to the Plan dated December 15, 1987 and certified by NJDEP on March 3, 1988, Morris County designated the Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority (�MCMUA�) to supervise the implementation of the county�s solid waste management plan.

2) "An inventory of the quantity of solid waste generated within the district for the ten-year period commencing with the adoption of updated district solid waste management plan;"

Morris County Response:
As shown in Table 1, the latest year for which solid waste generation data from the NJDEP is available is 2004, therefore this Plan Amendment will use 2004 as its base year. According to Table 1, solid waste generated in 2004 for Morris County was 1,174,122 tons. Total solid waste generation includes all solid waste disposed as garbage and all solid waste recycled. Disposal plus recycling yields generation. The recycling totals in Table 1 provided by the NJDEP for Morris County are a total of the annual recycling tonnage reports submitted by each Morris County municipality. The NJDEP adds tonnage to the municipal reports from other reports provided to the state by various sources, i.e. ISRI (the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries) and the NJDOT. These tonnages, often referred to as "add-ons," usually are in material categories which apply only toward the 60% Recycling Goal and not the 50% Recycling Goal. Municipal solid waste is a subset of total solid waste. Total solid waste includes all municipal solid waste plus other waste categories such as construction and demolition debris and industrial waste.

In order to arrive at an estimate of what the total generation, solid waste disposed and recycled for all types of waste, will be in 2015, the MCMUA looked at the trend of total generation from 1995 to 2004. The resulting totals for waste generation are shown in Table 2. For informational purposes, the table also shows population projections. Population projections based on the 2000 U.S. Census were available from the 2006 Morris County Data Book for 2005, 2010 and 2015. The data for the years between were extrapolated. The generation rate in pounds per capita per day was calculated from the population and total generation projections. Appendix A shows the table that was used to arrive at the total generation figures in Table 2. Appendix B compares Morris County total solid waste disposal tonnages which were handled at the 2 MCMUA transfer stations to the total solid waste disposal tonnages for Morris County as provided by the NJDEP and shown in Table 1. The difference between the two figures is assumed to be Morris County tonnage which was disposed outside of the 2 transfer stations.

Table 1
Morris County Recycling Rates 1995 � 2004

Year	Total Solid Waste Generation	Disposal			Recycling
Year	Total Solid Waste Generation	MSW (tons)	Bulky (tons)	Total (tons)	MSW (tons)	MSW %	Total Recy.	Total % Recy.
1995	729,669	189,823	86,401	276,224	228,663	54.6%	453,445	62.1%
1996	816,350	205,889	91,038	296,927	208,971	50.4%	519,423	63.6%
1997	959,269	237,182	102,405	339,587	252,506	51.6%	619,682	64.6%
1998	881,720	233,389	99,910	333,299	233,017	50.0%	548,421	62.2%
1999	894,999	292,150	126,048	418,198	227,237	43.8%	476,801	53.3%
2000	866,184	297,368	128,344	425,712	247,148	45.4%	440,472	50.9%
2001	937,671	328,768	141,987	470,755	218,496	39.9%	466,916	49.8%
2002	988,313	335,728	145,511	481,239	197,518	37.0%	507,074	51.3%
2003	1,017,001	355,758	153,146	508,904	202,916	36.3%	508,097	50.0%
2004	1,174,122	380,662	163,867	544,529	205,884	35.1%	629,593	53.6%

Data provided by the NJDEP on its website.

Table 2
Morris County Total Solid Waste Generation
Ten-Year Projection from 2004 Base Year

Year	Population	Total Generation (tons)	Pounds per Capita per Day
2004	482,362	1,174,122	13.34
2005	485,400	1,200,196	13.55
2006	486,740	1,226,271	13.80
2007	488,080	1,252,345	14.06
2008	489,420	1,278,420	14.31
2009