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ORGANIZED WASTE COLLECTION Organized waste collection and curbside collection of source separated (recyclables/compostable) materials are independent tunctions that can complement one another by minimizing the number of collection vehieles operating on a given residential street. 5tudies indicate that organized collection is expect�d to reduce the n�ber of refuse trucks on a residential street from five or six weekly to one per week. A reduction of this magni- tude should reduce the cost of refuse collection service ta a household, provide benefits of safer streets, reduce air and noise pollutian, reduce cost of street maintenance, and improve aesthe�ics. Organized waste collection is, of course, nat without disadvantages. The same studies indicate that the follawing items may be of particular concern: remova� of a householder's choice of refuse collector, additional municipal involvement, adverse effect on small refuse collection companies, loss of employment due to improved refuse collectian efficiency and po�ential federal anti-trust issues. To avert at least some of the above disadvantages while providing the desired organiz�d waste collectian services to a city, refuse collectors have formed a corporation of haulers opera�ing within the city at that time. The newly formed corporation negotiates a contractual agreement with the city for the purpose of providing organized residential waste collection including service, rates, and responding ta complaznts. The formation of such a corporation of all the aperating haulers (large and small) enables each hauler to receiv� a share of the market equal to the original number of his/her customers. It also a�lows the corporation to negotiate a contract for collec- tion of source separated materials on an organized collection basis. This latter possibility �s expected to restiore the �abar content to its pre-corporation status. Most recently however, because of existing federal anti-trust issues, o�ficials at the city of Champlin decided to retrain from further negotiations with a consortium of waste haulers contracting for organized col�ection. Action by the Minnesota State Legislature may be necessary to alleviate this condition. Other methods which a city may initiate for organized waste calZectzon are either entering into individual contrac�s with the haulers current�y working in the city, or accepting bids for the jab of collecting waste in the entire city. North St. Paul has r°cently signed contracts with haulers �o work in their area. The contract es�ablishes the area where the hauler will work, sets the price received for each st�p, and establishes the services ta be provided by the haulez. Each hauler received an area with the nutnber of stops equivalent to the number of customers sezved under the open system of trash collection. The contract can also indicate where the ma�erial collected must. be disposed of, such as taking it to �he RDF plant. .Contracts can also include the collection of source separated material. 14