Pro Star Waste collects Solid Waste from across five counties the company services and transports it to the Polk County Landfill. As is the case with many of the smaller volume landfills in Texas, this landfill charges its customers a disposal fee based on volume rather than weight. Therefore, Pro Star pays the same disposal fee for a truck or roll-off container that is half full as it does for a completely full truck or container. Similarly, the cost of fuel and truck operating expenses, personnel, and similar costs are essentially the same if Pro Star transports partially full or completely full waste loads to the landfill. The time spent taking partial loads to the landfill represents time that Pro Star personnel and equipment could otherwise use to serve other customers. The total cost savings is potentially significant, and would allow Pro Star to keep the cost of its services affordable for its customers.

To gain operating efficiency, Pro star proposes to operate a transfer station at its existing place of business in Goodrich, Texas. The transfer station will enable Pro Star to transfer Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste from partially loaded containers, consolidate and compact the waste into larger containers, and reduce the number of trips to the landfill.

In the process of transferring the C&D waste, Pro Star expects to be able to remove recyclable material from the waste loads. Typical C&D waste collected by Pro Star contains quantities of wood, aluminum, ferrous metal, brush and tree waste, and other materials that have some value as a recyclable commodity. Pro Star intends to remove and recycle as much of this material as is reasonably and economically feasible. This aspect of the operation will result in reducing dependency on landfill disposal and help reach the goals for waste diversion and recycling that have been established by the State of Texas.

The proposed method of transferring C&D materials is a direct, container-to-container operation. The hydraulic excavator with the grappling attachment will be used to transfer the material from one container to another. Typically, there will be no routine or deliberate placement of MSW on the concrete floor surface inside the transfer station. Because these operations take place in the building, there is significant reduction in the potential for windblown waste and surface water quality impairment.

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