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Created and marketed the reusable transport packaging program with other metropolitan counties. Promotes and provides funding for reuse opportunities, including the Twin Cities Free Market. Is partnering with the ReUse Alliance pilot project funded by the MPCA for one year to establish measurement tools for reuse. Waste Collection Metropolitan counties licensed 230 waste haulers to collect and transport MSW in 2010. Of these, 21 waste hauling firms are based in Ramsey County. Ramsey County issued operating licenses to an additional 65 waste haulers based in other counties. Ramsey and Washington counties track waste generated in both counties and delivered to RRT - Newport's processing facility. For waste generated in the two counties during 2010 and delivered to RRT- Newport, the largest three waste hauling firms collected and delivered 56% and the ten largest haulers collected and delivered 87 %. Municipalities in Ramsey County require people who generate waste — both at home and at work —to contract for regular waste collection service. Residents in five communities in Ramsey County are served by organized collection. Organized collection means that the city or township arranges for waste collection for all of its residents, or at least all single - family residential properties, by contract with one or more waste haulers. Little Canada, North St. Paul, Vadnais Heights, White Bear Lake, and White Bear Township have organized collection. The other residents and all businesses, industries, and institutions are served by open collection, also known as "subscription service." This type of collection means that waste generators contract directly with a waste hauler of their choice. Waste haulers take MSW directly to RRT- Newport, to a transfer station, or to a landfill. Waste generators can also haul their own waste to transfer stations in the county, RRT- Newport, or to transfer stations or landfills in other counties. Facilities and Hauler Rates There are three solid -waste facilities open to the public for disposal of solid waste in Ramsey County: J & J Recycling, Inc, Twin City Refuse & Recycling Transfer Station, Inc, and Veolia ES Vasko Solid Waste, Inc. Information on the rates and charges for these three facilities is included in annual license applications submitted to the Department of Public Health, demonstrating that they adhere to statutory volume -based fee requirements. There are three transfer stations in Ramsey County not open to the public (Veit, Keith Krupenny and Ray Anderson & Sons). As they are not open to the public, there is no schedule of rates and charges. Ramsey County does not collect data on rates and charges for licensed waste haulers that serve residential and commercial waste generators. Several municipalities gather this information for residents within their community. Five municipalities in Ramsey County have contracted for both residential refuse and recycling collection for more than 20 years: Little Canada, North St. Paul, Vadnais Heights, White Bear Lake, and White Bear Township. Table 3 reflects prices residents paid in 2011 for curbside collection of refuse and recycling, and any other base services that all residents served under the collection contract were required to pay for. (Prices for optional services are not included.) Rates shown include all applicable services when residents choose 30 -38 gallon, 60 -68 gallon, or 90 -96 gallon refuse collection service levels (other rates, such as for unlimited service or a senior rate, are not included). The State Waste Management Tax (9.75%) and Ramsey County Environmental Charge (28% Ramsey County Solid Waste Master Plan 2011 -2030 Page 137 Approved by the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners on 3120112