The final vote was 8-7 against approving the contract.
Source: Dozens speak out against ash for cover at Cortland landfill
Cortland County Landfill
Cortland County Waste Management Plan 4/2014 proposal
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of the Cortland County Solid Waste Management Plan is to identify
the path to be pursued for managing solid waste generated in Cortland County during a
ten-year planning period, in an economically and environmentally sound manner that is
consistent with the State‟s solid waste management policy. The initial year of this tenyear planning period will commence following approval of this Plan by the New York
State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC).
The residents, businesses, industries, and institutions in Cortland County
generate solid waste every day. The question about how to increase recovery, to
decrease disposal, and to reduce waste generation, now and in the future, creates the
need for a plan such as this one.
The purpose of the Local Solid Waste Management Plan (LSWMP) is to: 1) serve
as a countywide framework for the coordination of solid waste management; 2)
establish countywide solid waste goals and objectives — including goals for waste
reduction, recycling, and energy recovery — and a plan to monitor progress toward the
goals; and 3) satisfy NYSDEC requirements for solid waste planning and
comprehensive recycling analyses.
Cortland County serves as the solid waste planning unit for all municipalities
within the County. This LSWMP recognizes, however, that local municipalities, the
NYSDEC, private waste haulers, neighboring solid waste planning units, and private
facility owners all play important roles in Cortland County‟s current and future
management of solid waste and recyclable materials.
The County owns and operates one central landfill facility in the Towns of
Solon/Cortlandville/Homer and owns a materials recovery facility (MRF) in the City of
Cortland, which is currently operated by a private entity as a consolidation center for
recyclable materials that are trucked off-site for processing at a MRF. Additionally, four
Towns within the County (Virgil, Truxton, Solon, and Freetown) provide recyclables
drop-off centers for their residents. At this time, the Town of Solon is not operating their
drop-off center. Some of these Towns deliver their collected recyclables to the County
MRF and others use private haulers to market their recyclables. Generators and haulers
are not required to deliver waste or recyclables to the County facilities and businesses
may self-market their recyclables. Therefore, not all waste and recyclables pass through
the County facilities. It is currently estimated that slightly more than 20 percent of the
mixed Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and nearly 75 percent of the Construction and
Demolition (C&D) debris is managed outside of the County.
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The City of Cortland and the Villages of Homer and Marathon each currently
provide municipal collection services to their residents, through collection service
contracts entered in to by each municipality with a private hauling company that is
procured through a public bidding process. Except as noted for these three
municipalities that provide a municipal collection service, each generator of solid waste
and recyclable materials in Cortland County, whether it be an individual resident,
business or institutional facility, is responsible for delivering its solid waste and
recyclable materials to an appropriate solid waste management/recycling facility.
Residents will either use a residential drop-off facility or hire a private hauling company
to pick up their solid waste and recyclable materials. Businesses and institutional
facilities will either transport materials in their own trucks or will hire a private hauling
company to deliver their solid waste and recyclable materials to an appropriate facility.
Cortland County does not collect or transport materials from individual generators of
solid waste and recyclables.
The Solid Waste Management Act of 1988 established a State Solid Waste
Management Policy. The policy defines the following solid waste management priorities
in New York State:
first, to reduce the amount of solid waste generated;
second, to reuse material for the purpose for which it was originally intended
or to recycle material that cannot be reused;
third, to recover, in an environmentally acceptable manner, energy from solid
waste that cannot be economically and technically reused or recycled; and
fourth, to dispose of solid waste that is not being reused, recycled or from
which energy is not being recovered, by land burial or other methods
approved by the Department (from New York State Environmental
Conservation Law (ECL) 27-0106.1).
NYSDEC recently (December 2010) issued a statewide SWMP, Beyond Waste:
A Sustainable Materials Management Strategy for New York. It defines broad statewide
objectives for waste reduction, reuse and recycling, waste-to-energy, landfilling, and
special issues consistent with the State Solid Waste Management Policy. The
quantitative goal of Beyond Waste is to reduce the amount of waste New Yorkers
dispose by preventing waste generation and increasing reuse, recycling, composting
and other organic material recycling methods. Based on the data gathered and
compiled for this LSWMP, the County has identified program strategies to work toward
during a ten-year LSWMP planning period that is consistent with the State Solid Waste
Management Policy. The strategies set forth below were identified with the goal of
further enhancing the reuse and recycling of materials generated in Cortland County
and providing for the means to recover energy in an environmentally sound manner
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from solid waste that has not been reused or recycled. Each strategy and
corresponding goal will be evaluated for feasibility and cost effectiveness on an
individual basis according to the implementation schedule included in Chapter 7.0.
Program Strategy #1 – Evaluate Regional Solid Waste Partnership Opportunity
Cortland County, Onondaga County and the Onondaga County Resource
Recovery Agency (OCCRA) have proposed a regional solid waste partnership to help
manage the solid waste streams within the two counties. The proposed CortlandOnondaga Regional Solid Waste Partnership (partnership) includes the following key
components:
Cortland County will enhance its waste reduction, reuse and recycling
opportunities by gaining access to OCRRA programs such as (but not limited
to) public outreach programs that promote waste reduction and recycling,
yard and food waste composting, C&D debris recycling, and opportunities to
use a year round household hazardous waste facility and/or expand the
number of annual household hazardous waste collection events in Cortland
County.
Cortland County will recover energy from its non-recycled MSW by delivering
it via a new transfer station to OCRRA‟s environmentally sound Waste-toEnergy (WTE) facility.
OCRRA will haul all of the non-hazardous ash residue generated at its
Waste-to-Energy (WTE) facility to the Cortland County Landfill for disposal.
Fuel usage and greenhouse gas emissions associated with trucking waste
materials between Cortland County and OCRRA‟s WTE facility will be
minimized by back hauling Cortland County‟s MSW to the WTE facility in the
same trucks that deliver ash residue to the Cortland County Landfill.
This Program Strategy is a key determining factor in proceeding with future
program strategies listed below; therefore, an evaluation of whether to move forward
with the partnership is scheduled to be completed during the first year of the planning
period.
The other Program Strategies associated with this LSWMP include the following:
Program Strategy #2 – Increase Recycling at County Facilities
Goal: Increase recyclables recovery at County owned and/or operated facilities.
Program Strategy #3 – Construction & Demolition Debris Recycling
Goal: Increase diversion of C&D or remodeling debris from the landfill.
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Program Strategy #4 – Product Reuse Collection and Distribution Programs
Goal: Promote product reuse to increase waste diversion.
Program Strategy #5 – Product Stewardship Framework
Goal: Shift government funded waste diversion to one that relies on product
stewardship.
Program Strategy #6 – Household Hazardous Waste Collection
Goal: Increase collection rates and divert more HHW materials from disposal and
wastewater facilities.
Program Strategy #7 – Expand Mercury Collection Program
Goal: Provide residents with a convenient and safe method of disposal of mercury
containing devices.
Program Strategy #8 – Expand Mandatory E-Waste Recycling Program
Goal: Educate residents of proper E-waste recycling programs.
Program Strategy #9 – Pharmaceutical Education Program
Goal: Educate residents of proper Pharmaceutical management to reduce the instances
of improper disposal or flushing.
Program Strategy #10 – Support Yard Waste Composting Efforts
Goal: Encourage yard waste composting to increase diversion of yard waste from the
solid waste disposal stream.
Program Strategy #11 – Promote Backyard Composting through Education and
Training Programs
Goal: Encourage backyard composting to divert more food and yard waste from the
solid waste disposal stream.
Program Strategy #12 – Management of Organics
Goal: Increase diversion of food and yard waste requiring disposal.
Program Strategy #13 – Monitor Management of Animal Mortalities
Goal: Monitor success of Cornell Waste Management Institute (CWMI) and New York
State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDOT) research methods for the
management and composting of animal carcasses.
Program Strategy #14 – Public Outreach and Education
Goal: Educate residents to increase recycling and waste diversion and reduce improper
disposal of materials
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Program Strategy #15 – Improving Solid Waste and Recycling Data Compilation
Goal: To obtain a more complete data set to assist with the implementation of the
program strategies.
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Chapter 1 – Planning Unit Description
1.1 Size, Location, Population
1.1.1 Physical Setting
The gateway to the scenic Finger Lakes region, Cortland County is a small
rural county situated between Syracuse, Ithaca and Binghamton. As shown on
Figure 1-1, Cortland County is bordered by Onondaga County to the north;
Madison County to the northeast; Chenango County to the east; Broome and
Tioga Counties to the south; and Tompkins and Cayuga Counties to the west.
Cortland County has a land area of 502 square miles with a population density of
98 per square mile (sq mi). The County is approximately 98% rural in character,
with approximately 2% characterized as suburban in character. The relatively
small City of Cortland is the only city located within the County1
. Cortland County
is located within an hour automobile drive from the urban cities of Syracuse,
Utica, and Binghamton.
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