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Table 2-2 Advantages/Disadvantages of Organized Collection <br />Systems <br />Advantages Disadvantages <br />Increased efficiency enabling a lower . Households do not have a choice of <br />cost per household their hauler <br />Decreased impacts from truck traffic <br />Decreased fuel consumption <br />Greater control to establish service <br />requirements including: <br />► Ability to standardize service <br />makes public education simpler <br />► Ability to provide access to special <br />service needs at known, controlled <br />costs <br />► Volume -based pricing to achieve <br />waste abatement goals <br />► Delivery destinations for processing <br />and overall solid waste <br />management <br />► Factors affecting recycling and <br />diversion such as variable rate <br />pricing <br />► Improved control over residents <br />actually using garbage service <br />► Ability to set specifications on the <br />size and quality of trucks used <br />Ability to competitively bid service on <br />a regular basis helping promote lower <br />costs <br />Can be used to generate revenues to <br />sunnort other services <br />Greater administrative involvement by <br />the public entity <br />Small haulers have higher "entry" <br />requirements to get in the business <br />along with competitive opportunities <br />limited to contract openings <br />Current organized collection statutory <br />process to convert from open to <br />organized is cumbersome and difficult <br />politically <br />The primary potential advantages of organized collection are three -fold — lower prices, reduced <br />truck traffic, and community control over decisions related to waste management. There are <br />several factors involved in each of these three primary advantages. Greater efficiency, <br />competitive bidding, rate increases structured into contracts, and variable rate pricing options can <br />all result in more cost effective service provision. Fewer trucks stopping at every house results <br />in less truck traffic at slower speeds. Public entities have responsibility and potential liability for <br />proper solid waste management and organized collection provides better tools and control of <br />decisions that affect solid waste management. <br />The primary disadvantage is the loss of individual household control over the selection of a <br />hauler and the associated direct relationship. Along with increased control for the public entity <br />comes the requirement to provide the resources necessary to properly manage the decisions. <br />6 •Foth Infrastructure & Environment, LLC R - Analysis of Waste Collection Service Arrangements.doc <br />June 2009 <br />