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When asked to rank elements of a garbage collection system, residents again indicated that ensuring the lowest cost was the most important thing to them. Guaranteeing a high level of customer service was also a priority. Many residents ranked ability to choose a hauler as their top priority or as the item that was least important to them. Forty-six percent ranked lower cost as what was most important. Twenty-five percent said ability to choose their hauler and 16% said guarantee garbage is taken to a recovery facility. While customer service was a bit lower as a first choice (15%), it moved up as a priority when we compare the top three choices. Eighty-nine percent ranked lower cost as one of their top three choices, 80% listed customer service and then it fell down to 58% listing ability to choose and 55% listing take garbage to a recovery facility. What's Important in a Garbage System (ranked in the top three choices) Lower Cost High Level of Service Ability to choose a hauler Guarantee Garbage Goes to a RRF Reduce Truck Traffic 89% 80% 58% 54% 24% Reducing truck traffic ranked way down by survey respondents. Fifty-four percent listed it as the item that was least important to them. That was followed by 25% listing ability to choose and 13% saying take garbage to a recovery facility was least important to them. Organized collection of garbage can reduce rates (because of economies of scale) and truck traffic while limiting residents' ability to choose a hauler. When asked if they would want the City to limit the number of haulers in order to achieve the benefits of organized collection, only cost seem to appeal to Roseville homeowners. Fifty-three percent said they would want Roseville to limit the number of haulers in order to negotiate lower rates. Forty percent said they would not want Roseville to limit the number of haulers. Far fewer resident said they would want to limit trucks in order to have one of the other benefits. Where Garbage Goes Once garbage in Roseville is picked up it can be taken to various disposal sites including land- fills, resource recovery facilities and/or transfer stations (see appendix H). Construction and demolition waste from work done on your house must go to special C&D landfills and is not included in state totals used to track household waste. Other options not used by companies that serve Roseville residents include incineration and composting. The City of Minneapolis operates a garbage incinerator where there is no processing of the waste; all garbage brought there is burned to produce electricity. The Prairieland Composting Facility in Truman, Minnesota is designed to compost garbage. Garbage is brought to the facility and processed so that noncompostable material such as plastics and household batteries are removed. The material is then put in a covered storage facility to decompose. The fmished compost can be sold but it is not in much demand. 36