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Attachment A City of Roseville Year -End Recycling Report 2011 www.eurekarecycling.org cling. www.eurekarecyeling.org Overview Our mission is to reduce In 2006, the City of Roseville, recognizing the community's desire for a waste today through recycling program that is part of demonstrating that waste is completely innovative resource preventable, partnered with Eureka Recycling to design a zero -waste recycling management and to reach program for its residents. awaste -free tomorrow by demonstrating that waste Recycling is an important part of zero waste that complements other strategies is preventable, not inevitable. such as composting, redesigning the products we need, and reducing the amount of stuff we produce and use in the first place. After all, zero waste is not about deprivation and never buying another product again! It's about having safe, non - toxic, healthy, and durable products that bring happiness into our lives without polluting or damaging our bodies and planet. Recycling alone will not accomplish this, but a zero -waste approach to recycling benefits our environment, our health, and our communities and is effective at reducing waste as well as reducing our use of natural resources. Zero -waste recycling is an approach to recycling that is first and foremost about the natural resource we use for the products we need, not collection or profit margins on hauling. It considers the highest and best use for the material at each step in the process. It is about respecting, preserving, and creating the rapidly depleting resources that our lives depend on. It requires that we make efforts to reduce what manufacturers produce and what we buy. We begin with prevention first, not as afterthought. Then, we recycle as close to the source as possible, making sure that recycled materials are used for making new products instead of virgin materials. And our education and outreach doesn't stop with recycling; we ensure that residents are engaged and educated more broadly about source reduction, producer responsibility, and the ways they can help reduce the amount of new materials that are produced. The end result of zero -waste recycling is that our recycling efforts have the highest benefit for the environment and the community. We do this by a providing a constant and full analysis of recycling that takes into account not only the costs, but the environmental benefits and impacts, and the impact on and convenience for our community. An affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Q Printed on 100% postconsumer recycled paper that was processed without the use of chlorine.