Trash collection
Conversion to automation
•Robert Greenbaum, Mayor Mount Olive Township
•Sean Canning, Township Administrator
•Sherry Maniscalco, Chief Financial Officer
•Tim Quinn D.P.W. Superintendant
Mount Olive Township
Trash Collection
Conversion to Automation
An overview
How to ensure the successful
Conversion from
manual collection to automation
Mount Olive Township
Trash Collection
Conversion to Automation
 What is our current status?
 What is automation
 What are benefits
 What are disadvantages?
 How to implement the program
Mount Olive Township
Trash Collection
Conversion to Automation
 Where we are currently
10
5
5
8
8
5
0
Sanitation
Trucks
Recycling
Trucks
Drivers
Laborers
Mount Olive Township
Trash Collection
Conversion to Automation
 Workers compensation experience costs 2009-2012
$200,000.00
$150,000.00
$117,106.43
$174,503.45
$100,000.00
$50,000.00
$587.63
$106.25
$0.00
$45,278.32
$3,519.19
$1,031.27
$3,071.05
Days lost due to workers comp injuries 2009-2012
Days lost 2009-2012
Back, 246
Upper arm, 490
Knees, 95
Shoulder, 19
Current status through 2015
$3,500,000.00
$3,219,332.00
$3,038,670.00
$3,000,000.00
$2,705,334.00
$2,818,648.00
$2,500,000.00
$2,000,000.00
$1,902,497.00
$1,940,546.00
$1,979,357.00
$2,018,945.00
Total Budget
Salary
$1,500,000.00
District tax
$1,000,000.00
$1,091,594.00
$1,096,990.00
$1,121,608.00
$1,142,147.00
2012
2013
2014
2015
$500,000.00
$0.00
Upcoming capital
costs
•Aging fleet due for
replacement
•Seven (7) packer and
recycling trucks due for
replacement due to age
•Total costs if current
methods are maintained
are
•$1,520,000.00 total price
tag of replacing current
fleet
•**Note to be fair this
price is not all at once
Increase recycling revenue through marketing of
material
2. Decrease costs of utility through automation of
collection
1.
•Current return 2011 from
Morris MUA
Marketing of material
•Gross return $38,224.81
•Net return approximately
$20,000.00 (MUA Charges for
dumpster pulls)
$136,855.20
Total
$86,544.48
$38,394.43
Trinity
Delivered
•Solution
•Market material
•Estimated gross and net
Trinity
Pickup
$20,697.60
Co Mingle
return
$11,383.68
$30,394.43
MUA
•Dumpster pickup (no charge
for pull costs) = $86,544.48
•Delivered by Mount Olive =
$116,157.60
Paper
$136,855.20
$75,160.80
$7,830.39
$0.00
$50,000.00
$100,000.00 $150,000.00
What were four scenarios examined impact by 2015
Scenario
% rise/ decrease
budget by 2015
% rise decrease in
salary by 2015
% rise/ decrease
in tax district by
2015
Scenario 1 – continuation of
current operations
Scenario 2 – Phase in of
program through 2015 – 4
retirees in sanitation
+19%
+4.6%
+8%
+7.9%
-26.1%
+6.1%
Scenario 3 – Full
implementation of program
by 2014, 4 personnel
transferred, no retirees
+5.5%
Scenario 4 – Full
implementation by October
2013, 4 retirees
-1.1%
-11.6%
-26.1%
+4.6%
-4.9%
What is scenario 4
Market recyclable materials
Use profits from marketing to purchase roll-off truck
Purchase roll off truck in fall of 2012
Utilize 2013 recycle profits to assist fund the down payment of three
automated refuse packers
Initiate curbside auto refuse program in fall of 2013
Purchase containers for residents – summer 2013
Initiate public education campaign early summer of 2013
2013 transfer four(4) packer trucks to recycling/ bulk operations,
sell up to four (4) large recycling trucks to help offset costs
Current status versus scenario 4
Total budget through 2015
$3,500,000.00
$3,219,332.00
$2,818,648.00
BUDGET
Current
$2,586,009.00
BUDGET
Scenario 4
$3,038,670.00
$3,000,000.00
$2,500,000.00
$2,000,000.00
$2,705,334.00
$2,705,334.00
$1,902,497.00
$1,940,546.00
$1,902,497.00
$1,736,615.00
$1,500,000.00
$1,091,594.00
$1,000,000.00
$1,096,990.00
$2,670,850.00
$2,674,392.00
$1,979,357.00
$2,018,945.00
$1,818,946.00
$1,808,733.00
$1,121,608.00
$1,142,147.00
TAX
Scenario 4
$807,374.00
SALARY
Current
$1,091,594.00
$930,459.00
$793,382.00
$500,000.00
TAX
Current
SALARY
Scenario 4
$0.00
2012
2013
2014
2015
Mount Olive Township
Trash Collection
Conversion to Automation
2012 versus 2013/14 equipment status
2012 Sanitation
Trucks
5
2014 Sanitation
Trucks
3
2012 Recycling
5
2014 Recycling
4
2012 drivers
8
2014 drivers
8
2012 laborers
8
2014 laborers
4
2012 roll offs
0
2014 roll offs
1
Advantages/ disadvantages auto refuse
collection
Advantages
Disadvantages
 Wheeled containers easy for
 Startup costs (may be
residents to take to curb
 Capacity of auto loading cans
3 to 4 times that of regular
cans
 Reduced workers
compensation costs
 Capacity of auto refuse truck
700-1200 stops per route
mitigated as current fleet
needs replacement)
 Costs of containers
 Public educational
component
 Special smaller cans for over
55 y.o.a and special handicaps
at request
What is automated collection?
•Single operator pickup and
dumps carts using
articulated arm
•Highly productive
•Increases efficiency
•Increase workers safety
•Decreased labor costs
Collection related
injury – other towns/
cities
• Little Egg Harbor NJ
•200 days to 0
•Santa Cruz, Ca
•300 to 0
•South San Francisco
•700 days to 0
•Portsmouth, VA
•$112,000 to $25,000/ year
•Seymour, In
•$52,000 to $0
•Woodbridge, NJ
•$800,000.00 to $150,000.00
Conversion to automation
From this
To this
Common concerns
 Ugly large cans difficult
to maneuver, particularly
elderly and disabled
 Actual practice has not borne
this out in benchmarked
communities, regardless best
practice will be to offer smaller
cans for the over 55 and disabled
communities
 Not enough room for
households refuse in
single cart
 96Gallon cans have proven to be
more than adequate in all towns
studied.
 Displacement of workers
 Current status is opportune time
due to period of retirements
anticipated without affecting
negatively any workers
Enforcement of non compliance
 1st month learning curve
and reminders using
“oops” tags
 “oops” tag to residents
whose carts are
misplaced along with
informative flyer
 After 1st month garbage
cans not in compliance
or not placed in
appropriate cans will not
be picked up
• April
1, 2012
•Implement recycle
marketing with new
contract – Trinity
Fall 2012
•Purchase roll off
truck
•Goal is to
maximize return
on recyclables
Winter 2013
•Budget for 3 auto
refuse trucks
•Budget for cans
for distribution
Winter 2013
•Amend ordinance
Summer 2013
•Initiate public
education
campaign
October 1, 2013
Special thanks
 Assist in preparation, corrections and feedback
 Christie Stachnick and Lisa Pignataro
 Research and delving into archives to produce past
studies
 Lisa Lashway and Michelle Masser