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Message -----Original Message-- From: Jackie Schroeder [mailto1N�111�J1111l111M Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 9:25 AM To: Subject: Single Sort Recycling Mayor and Council Members - I support the single sort recycling for many reasons: Page 1, of 1 1 ) Easier to combine all recycle materials into one container. Sure two sort is easy, but single sort will even be 4 easier. 2) Single sort containers will have a lid on them, so on windy days we will not have recycle materials blowing all over the city. Therefore, we will have less trash laying around our city. 3) The single sort containers will have wheels on them, so all we will have to do is roll the container down to the curb. No more bending over and picking heavy containers when there is a lot of paper in a container. 4) It has been seen by the Mayor and Council Members who have toured the recycling plant, that the waste is minimal. 5) 1 don't believe we need a pilot program to prove the single sort will work. I find it hard to believe that people do not want to make their lives easier and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know single sort is easier than two sort. Recycling is an educational issue anyway, it has nothing to do with how many containers we use. So, let's rake it easier for those of us who do recycle and educate those who don't. Selling them on a single -sort should be easier than a two sort. A pilot program for a select area would not show how the entire city would benefit for a single sort. An area may be picked that doesn't: tend to recycle now, or an area may be picked that most recycle now. Whose to say that would be a good sampling to base a decision on. 6} The cost is minimal to implement the single sort. Sometimes you as a council just need to make a decision on are issue. You don't always have to study an issue to death, and I mean that literally. Some issues just die due to the fact they are studied until no one makes a decision and they just seem to disappear and later we wonder whatever happened to it, Don't let this one of those issues, it is too important. Don't frustrate those that are thanking about recycling and are hearing all this controversy and saying maybe I won't give recycling a try afterall. I feel it is tiTe to implement this program, educate residents about recycling, and get on with other business. It really has blown me away that so much time is being spent on this issue and I think it is time to move on. Jackie Schroeder Roseville Resident 9/18/2003