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• 2014 Solid Waste Management Plan The Florida Department of Environmental Protection issues the majority of permits associated with solid waste facility construction, operations and closure. All of SWDD required regulatory permits are in good standing and operations of the landfill facility are in compliance with regulatory requirements. 3. Solid Waste Volumes and Disposal Capacity Requirements Over the past seven years, solid waste received and processed by the System has declined from 360,000 tons in 2007 to 230,000 tons at the low point of the recession in 2010, recovering to 255,000 tons in 2013. The geographical area served by the SWDD is the entirety of Indian River County. For planning purposes, Class I and C&D solid waste volumes were projected using historical per -capita volume utilization rates multiplied by the medium growth population projections provided by the University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR). Projections for a 40 year planning period were developed because of the long duration lead time necessary to plan, permit and construct solid waste disposal facilities. The calculated build -out volume of the Segment III disposal unit is 13.4 million cubic yards. The baseline case for required solid waste disposal airspace was developed using the current operating scenario for landfilling wastes. A per -capita landfill capacity utilization rate of 1.28 cubic yards/year was used for baseline Class I projections assuming no increase in the current 37% recycling rate. This utilization rate represents in-place waste densities that can be expected in the lower layers of the Segment III landfill during the initial 15 to 20 years of waste decomposition, settlement and compression by overlying waste. C&D tonnage placed into the landfill has significantly declined over the past five years due to economic conditions and no significant tropical storm events. A conservative per -capita airspace utilization rate of 0.42 CY/ year is used for projections, assuming the current recycling rate of 37 percent. These projections for Class I and C&D airspace requirements at current recycling rates are shown in Table ES -1. PIE NEEL—SCHAFFER ES -4 160