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Study 2 - Analysis of City Diversion /Recycling Tracking Efforts <br />Task I — Review Data for City Diversion Rate <br />1. Conduct kickoff meeting <br />2. Obtain and review current and historical City generation and diversion data, including <br />but not limited to: <br />• Monthly tonnage reports from Vasco Road landfill <br />• Annual tons for residential refuse collection <br />■ Annual tons for commercial refuse collection <br />• Annual tons for residential recycling <br />• Annual tons for residential organics collection <br />• Annual bulky waste diversion tons <br />• Annual commercial recycling tons <br />• CalRecycle (formerly CIWMB) historical diversion and per capita data <br />(including per person and per employee) <br />3. Across the extent to which this data accurately reflects refuse and recycling activities in the City <br />Task 2 — Review Data Used for County 75% Goal <br />4. Obtain and review City diversion data reported to the Alameda County Waste Management <br />Authority for 2010 and prior years <br />5. Review Alameda County Waste Management Authority diversion calculations, both <br />pre -2007 and 2007 and after <br />• The County compiles landfill reports for the jurisdiction, which member agencies <br />adjust as appropriate, as allowed in regulation. The diversion rate is based on the <br />State - calculated average disposal per capita and current disposal per capita <br />6. Review City diversion data for 2010 to verify accuracy and reliability <br />Task 3 — Identify Recycling Efforts Not Captured <br />7. Inventory City recycling efforts in all relevant sectors and determine whether they are being <br />captured in current diversion data. Consider recycling activities in locations such as: <br />• Big box retailers and other large corporations with in -house recycling programs <br />• Construction <br />• landscaping <br />• Schools <br />• Recycling buyback centers <br />• Others, to be determined <br />S. Conduct on -site review of transfer station, the MRF sort line /conveyor operations, and green <br />waste transfer operations (includes a minimum of two on -site visits of the PGS facility and <br />interviews of PGS operations management) <br />9. Quantify recycling efforts that are not currently being captured <br />10. Identify a methodology for future quantification of these recycling efforts <br />Exhibit 2 -1 (Revised for Study 2 only) <br />Work Plan Tasks, Subtasks. Deliverables and Milestones <br />City of Pleasanton <br />Assistance with Operational /Efficiency Review of PGS and Analysis of <br />City Diversion /Recycling Tracking Efforts <br />Page I of 2 <br />Deliverables <br />and Milestones <br />• Kickoff meeting <br />• Work papers on <br />diversion data <br />(November30, 2010) <br />• Work papers on <br />County 75 °/o Goal data <br />(November 30, 2010) <br />• Work papers <br />summarizing recycling <br />efforts not captured <br />(December31, 2010) <br />NowPoint Group 2 - <br />