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in deep community engagement. This year we will want to meet with residents and staff in Roseville to report the specifics of our plans going forward and how they open new areas for Eureka Recycling and the city to work together to reach zero waste. • In 2012, Eureka Recycling will also complete an updated analysis of plastics recycling opportunities and options. We are preparing for conversations with Roseville city officials about the environmental and cost impacts of plastics recycling. We are also preparing for conversations with Roseville residents about this issue, which will include: • The 2012 Guide to Recycling, which focuses on the complications of plastic recycling. • An online questionnaire getting feedback from residents about their thoughts and values around plastics and plastics recycling. • Updated plastics information on our website. • Outreach through city events and our Zero -Waste Hotline. • For 10 years, Eureka Recycling has been working on building and implementing a citywide zero -waste composting program for your neighbors in the City of Saint Paul. A program of this scale has not been done in this marketplace before. Once complete, having a thriving composting model will have the effect of making composting that is designed to reduce waste and create dirt more achievable in small- and mid -sized suburbs like Roseville. This is a zero -waste composting program, which means it starts with prevention, not collection, and contains programmatic elements to help residents prevent wasted food and backyard and worm compost. These are things that Roseville residents can do right now (and many do!). Although we are not focusing on a collection program for Roseville in 2012, there may be ways for residents to benefit from Eureka Recycling's leadership in preventing wasted food and commitment to backyard and worm composting. We look forward to talking with you about Roseville's zero -waste and waste reduction goals and exploring ways we can help work with your highly engaged and informed residents to build a sustainable, zero -waste city. About Eureka Recycling Eureka Recycling is the only organization in Minnesota that specializes in zero waste. The organization's services, programs, and policy work present solutions to the social, environmental, and health problems caused by wasting. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, based in the Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Eureka Recycling's mission is to demonstrate that waste is preventable, not inevitable. Because this mission is realized by any person or group that chooses to prevent waste, Eureka Recycling provides opportunities for everyone to experience firsthand that waste can be prevented. Perhaps most well known for its $9 million annual recycling operations, Eureka Recycling has provided curbside and apartment recycling services, education, and advocacy since 2001. Eureka Recycling has a wide range of initiatives designed to prevent the needless wast ng of our discards through reuse, recycling, composting, waste reduction, producer responsibility and more. These 12