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Comprehensive Plan Solid Waste Sub -Element that can be constructed prior to re -permitting of the entire 70 -acre footprint. Along with Segment III, the existing Class I landfill with the scheduled vertical expansion and the two additional infills are designed to provide a disposal capacity of 13.5 million cubic yards. This will provide sufficient capacity to meet the County's disposal needs through the year 2030 and provide a surplus of more than 2.11 million cubic yards of disposal capacity. In conjunction with increasing landfill capacity, the SWDD is continuing to work to decrease the demand for landfill space. The most significant effort in this regard is maintaining and expanding the County's countywide recycling program. Currently, the County's recycling program includes curbside pick-up for residences and either pick-up or drop-off service for businesses. Recently, the County expanded its recycling educational program to encourage more recycling, increased the number of materials that can be recycled, and changed the County's recycling collection and separation method. With expansion of the County's resource recovery and recycling programs, the amount of solid waste that will be disposed in the landfill will be reduced further and will increase the expected life span of the landfill even longer. In the future, the county should continue to expand recycling activities and pursue waste to energy conversion to reduce the amount of solid waste being disposed of at the landfill. Funding and Capital Improvements The current SWDD 5 -year Capital Improvements Program (CIP), as identified in the Capital Improvements Element (CIE) of the County's Comprehensive Plan, is shown in Appendix "A". This CIP includes CCC improvements and relocation; purchase of tractors/transfer trailers and roll- off truck/containers; lateral and vertical expansion of segments I and II; development of segment III; and infill improvements. The SWDD's CIP is completely funded through assessments and user fees. To ensure that solid waste is adequately collected and disposed of, the County must undertake the improvements identified in the CIP. Since the County's CIE must be updated annually, any capital improvements projects completed will be removed from the CIP, and any new needed improvements will be added on an annual basis. Solid Waste Collection, Storage, and Transfer Generally, the County's existing collection system is adequate for a rural area. According to the Solid Waste Master Plan, however, a mandatory countywide curbside service type of solid waste collection may become necessary as the County becomes more urbanized. In rural areas, it is generally not feasible to pick up all solid waste at the source of generation. In urbanized areas, however, it is more efficient for solid waste haulers to pick up solid waste at residences and businesses. Currently, the existing customers of the County -franchised solid waste haulers are paying about $14.32 per month for collection services. According to the SWDD, the collection fee per customer could be reduced if there were a mandatory curbside solid waste collection system. Presently, about ten percent (10%) of the County's solid waste is collected and transferred to the Community Development Department Indian River County 22