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�� <br />� <br />� <br />� <br />� <br />� <br />Currently the �ollowing Metropolitan Council waste abatement <br />funds for rebates, loans, and grants are available to cities and <br />orqanizations: <br />a. Cities are e�igible for $4.00 per year for each tan of <br />recyclable materiais (excluding yard wastes) collect�d <br />per gear and up to fifty cents per household per year for <br />expenses incurred for saurce separation activities. <br />Note: Roseville recen�ly received fifty cents per household <br />for i�s leaf composting program. <br />b. Organizations can receive grants and loans for a variety of <br />projects to process trash, zecycle or compost it, or reduce <br />the amount of trash generated in the first place. <br />In the Ju1y/August 1986 issue of the Metro Monitor, the <br />Metropolitan Council reported that recently they funded the <br />following communities for recycling and composting projects: <br />- Columbia Heigh�s: $10,000 to increase participation in its <br />� drop-off recycling prag�ams and reduce the amount of trash <br />generated in the city by ten percent. <br />- District 14 Community Council, St. Paul: $14,000 to run a <br />� new curbside pickup program for recyclables in two St. Paul <br />neighborhaods and put togEther a l�af collection and <br />compos�ing program for fall. <br />� <br />� <br />- Edina: $7,800 to carry out a new curbside pickup pragram <br />for recyclables. <br />Medina: $2,500 to start up and promote a drop�off program <br />for recyclables. <br />St. Anthony: $2,483 to improve a drop-off center for <br />recyclables. <br />� - St. Paul Neighborhood Energy Cansortium, St. Paul: $10,Q00 <br />to start up a new curbside pickup program �or recyclables <br />in five sections of St. Pau�. <br />� - Spring Lake Park: $4,931 to expand a curbside recycling <br />p�ogram throughout the city, promote use of county compost <br />sites and investigate a city compost site. <br />� - Young America: $4,000 ta expand and promote use of a drap- <br />�ff center for recyclables. <br />Grants were also made to severa� private enterprises and the <br />University of Minnesota far recycling prajects. <br />19 <br />� <br />� <br />