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� <br />COMPENDIUM <br />, Residential Waste Mana ement Alternatives for Roseville, a report <br />with conclusions and recommendations, was prepared to provide the <br />� City Council with information concerning impending changes to our <br />landfill habits. <br />Ground water <br />A sites, and <br />� prompted our <br />of 198�. <br />`� alternatives <br />Metrapo�itan <br />plan for wa <br />-- the responsi <br />with the Cou <br />contamination, lack of areas for suitable landfil� <br />the high cost of properly construc'ted landfills have <br />State Legislature to enact the Waste Management Act <br />The Act cha�ged the Metropolitan region with finding <br />to landfi].l�ng wastes. Later amendments gave the <br />Council the authority to develop a regional policy <br />ste abatement, and gave the seven reginnal counties <br />bility for developing a County Master Plan compatible <br />ncil's policy. <br />T Roseville currently has an open system �or refuse collection. A <br />resident contracts with a licensed refuse hauler to collect <br />household wastes on a weekly basis, and deposit those wastes at a <br />sanitary landfill. Rates for service vary� but at this time <br />- average $8.00 �o $9.OQ per month per household. <br />� <br />For a number of �rears Roseville has, as a matter of civic pride <br />and responsibility, had an annua� curbside leaf collection <br />program, an annual Clean Sweep Day and, this year, a Hotisehold <br />Hazardous Waste Collection Day. In 1985, the curbside leaf <br />collection program qualified Roseville for the up to $.SO/house- <br />hold source separation fund administered by the Me�ropolitan <br />Counc i �. . <br />- The Meiropalitan Council's Solid Waste Management Guide/Policy <br />Plan and the current draft of Ramsey County's Master�Plan for <br />� Solid Waste Mana ement define and set objectives and goals for <br />_ three major categories af solid waste management. The Council's <br />Guide/Policy Plan encompasses the seven county Metropolitan Area <br />- whil� Ramsey County's Master P�an focuses on county wide and ci�y <br />goals. <br />The three maj�r categaries of waste management are: was�e <br />reduction, source separatian, and resouzce recovery. From a <br />residential viewpa�.nt, waste reduction is any process which <br />reduces the amount of solid waste generated, including backyax-d <br />composting and tuzf management; source separatian means separa- <br />tion of recyclable or compostable materials by �he�generator for <br />diversion from �.he waste stream; resource recovery is the <br />conversion o� remaining wastes into a salable/usable product. <br />I <br />