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Recyclingiii Selected Areas in Relation to Single�Stream Listed in alphabetical Brooklyn P.2rk & HRG population 140,131 They were the first hies to switch to single stream. Set out rates were around 50% before; now they are 71% (Roseville's is 65%). It needed a program to appeal to a rapidly growing, younger population without established recycling habits. Believes single - stream has been effective. Concerned that promised cost savings have fret to materialize. Little Canada population 9,971 It signed a contract with a consortium of haulers including waste Management in 2002 for two stream collection. It has no plans to change that contract. me inneapolis population 382,618 Source separated. It refuses to consider single strum because of concerns about contaminated material. Contract with BFI specifies a residual rate of less than 1%. It has profit sharing and a higher residual rate would cut into profits. Minnetonka population 51,301 It signed a contract with waste Management to switch to two - stream. It has no plans to conduct a single- stream pilot. It is concerned about increased residual rates with single stream and about authenticity of the dent residual rates being reported to it from WM. St. Paul population 287,151 Source separated switching to tiro- stream. It conducted a nationally acclaimed study of recycling collection methods including source separated, two- stream and single stream. Found two- stream with weekly collection to be the best method. It temmnated its contract with waste Management in part because of concerns about WM's processing plant* Just signed a 10-year contract extension in which rates are anticipated to go up only 15% over ten years (waste Management is proposing to increase Roseville rates by 15% in the first year and 3% a year after that). Shoreview population 25,924 Earlier this year waste Management agreed to re -open its contract and lower the rate for two - stream collection. waste Management threatened to walk away from its contract unless Shoreview agreed to switch from a one -day collection to a five -day zones stern similar to Roseville. waste Management needed the changes in order to deal with staff cuts following the loss of the St. Paul contract.