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Residential waste in San Joaquin County's <br />unincorporated area is collected by five franchised <br />collectors in six geographical areas of the County. For <br />the waste characterization study of the disposal stream <br />for residential waste, thirty samples of residential <br />waste were taken from franchised collectors at the <br />Lovelace Transfer Station, Harney Lane Landfill, and <br />Corral Hollow Landfill. The average sample weight was <br />233 lbs. <br />The franchised collectors and four additional <br />licensed collectors pick up commercial and industrial <br />wastes in the unincorporated County. They are not <br />restricted to any particular geographical area, so their <br />trucks frequently cross city/county jurisdictional lines <br />on their routes. Therefore, it was difficult to sample <br />thirty loads of commercial waste that were exclusively <br />from the unincorporated area of the County. However, to <br />the extent possible, efforts were made to sample loads <br />which originated in the unincorporated County. Commercial <br />solid waste is collected by front -loaders from a number <br />of small businesses, or in drop boxes from larger <br />individual businesses. <br />Thirty randomly selected commercial loads were <br />sampled at the Lovelace Transfer Station, Harney Lane <br />Landfill, and Corral Hollow Landfill from a mix of front - <br />loaders and drop boxes. San Joaquin County is largely <br />agricultural and many of the commercial customers, <br />especially in the unincorporated area, are small <br />operations (i.e. small businesses, farms, offices, <br />schools, and restaurants). Their bin wastes were sampled <br />and weighed in the same manner as residential waste. <br />Industrial solid waste as defined by the planning <br />guidelines for the ACT is waste from mechanized <br />manufacturing concerns, construction companies, <br />refineries, or treatment plants. Industrial solid waste <br />Appendix 1 6 <br />