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2020 Solid Waste and Moderate <br />Risk Waste Management Plan Update <br /> <br />AX0304191054PDX 3-5 <br />Detailed tables for the Central Waste Generation Area can be found in the 2015-2015 Statewide WCS <br />and Kittitas’ waste stream breakdowns for 2008 can be found in the 2010 Kittitas SWMP. A summary of <br />the highest contributors in each waste sector can be found in Table 3-1. <br />Table 3-1. Comparison of Waste Character in Four Waste Sectors <br />Sector <br />2015-2016 Statewide WCS - Central Waste <br />Generation Area <br />2008 Kittitas Waste Characterization Study in <br />the SWMP <br />Residential  Organics 48.2% <br /> Paper 17.4% <br /> Plastics 9.2% <br /> Organics 45.1% <br /> Paper 22.5% <br /> Plastics 10.6% <br />Commercial  Organics 17.3% <br /> Wood wastes 16.7% (C&D additional 8.2%) <br /> Plastics 14% <br /> Organics 38.6% <br /> Paper 33.4% <br /> Plastics 10% <br />Self-Haul C&D  C&D 44.5% <br /> Wood wastes 33.3% <br /> Consumer products 9.1% <br /> Organics 19.5% <br /> C&D 49.4% (of this 17.7% wood waste) <br /> Metal 8.0% <br />Self-Haul Other  Organics 27.7% <br /> Wood wastes 14.7% <br /> Consumer products 22.1% <br />3.1.2.1 Comparison of Results <br />Both studies come to the same conclusion with regard to the largest component of the disposed waste <br />stream (organics). Both studies also show that there are a large quantity of paper and plastics remaining <br />in the disposed waste. Kittitas County has recycling/reuse programs for 3 of the top 5 waste products <br />found in the Statewide WCS- organics, paper, plastics. This is validation that the County has focused on <br />providing the right types of recycling/reuse services. <br />Assuming the percent of inedible food-vegetative and edible food-vegetative is similarly high in Kittitas, <br />this could present either a reuse or diversion opportunity as market conditions allow. These products are <br />not currently accepted at the Ellensburg Compost Facility and the new compost facility is being designed <br />assuming that food waste is not accepted. A different processing option would need to be established. <br />3.2 Recycling and Diversion <br />This section presents recycling and diversion quantities and rates for Kittitas County in 2018. <br />3.2.1 Recycling and Diversion Definitions <br />Recycling and diversion are defined as follows. <br /> Recycling means “transforming or remanufacturing waste materials into usable or marketable <br />materials for use other than landfill disposal or incineration. Recycling does not include collection, <br />compacting, repackaging, and sorting for the purpose of transport.” (WAC 173-350-100)7 <br /> Ecology defines diversion as the recovery of “asphalt, concrete, and other construction, demolition, <br />and land clearing debris” through uses “other than landfill disposal.”8 <br />3.2.2 Recycling Quantities and Rate <br />Recycled tonnages are based on responses to Ecology’s Annual Washington State Recycling Survey as <br />listed in Table 3-2. These tonnages do not include recyclables collected by the WUTC hauler in the cities <br /> <br />7 Solid Waste Handling Standards, Definition. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=173-350-100. <br />8 Washington State Department of Ecology’s Beyond Waste Solid Waste Recycling webpage: <br />http://www.ecy.wa.gov/beyondwaste/sixteen_initiatives/solid_waste_recycling.html. [}) . . . . .