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Everyone generates waste Bywastewemean things that eve have ma we no longer Arm to have Perhap s it an old piece of In wrote, yesterday's newspaper or many Id ar wrapper . Sometimes we give tlmsethings away, some- times we recycle than and sometimes we tlaowthemintlkegarbage Thosearesome butnotaq offlo park of fire waste system. We all use the waste systan, although most of us take it for granted Our garbage and recy- ding are often picked up when we re not home mdtakensomeplacewedoo'tsee Burke choices we make either explicitly or by de- fault imp act lives and livdiho o is, Joe natural environment and Joe business environment. The City Council adopted a set of environmen- tal godsin 1992. The go rats were based on recommendations in tike Vista 2 00 0 report The environmental goals adopted by Joe Coup at we Identify and solve local pollution problems through clean up, mitigation andprevention ® Corinne Joe emphasis on waste reduction and tike improvement of the community 's recycling efforts ® Corinne Joe emphasis on wong programs which develop evtal awareness in all of our citizenry In June 2001 tike Roseville City Corral established a Residential Solid Wane and Receding Citizens Advisory Committee to review Roseville a practices and policies on garbage and recycling established following a 1991 citizens report study alternatives and make recommendations Committee members Tent 10 months hearing presentations aom off orals with tike State Ramsey County and other Minnesota cons We conducted a survey of homeowners and another o f ant artmen4 tuwnhomeand condo residents, conducted focus groups with row dente apartment owners and managers, and Ford age hailer s conducted a public workshop, and tookwntten and phone comments. Members also toured tike Resource Recovery Facility, the Household Hazardous Wane collection ate Wane Management a single stream recycling facility and other cities dean up daypmgrams. Committee members Fund most residents are glad that their task andrecycling are pickedup in atimety fashion and taken away. Residents surveyed are pleased with their garb age set vice At the same nine they are concerned about wher e their garb age go es for dim o sal. At tike time o f tike last report in 1991, Ramsey County required all garbage collected go to tike Resource Recovery Facility in Newport Minnesota But 1994 U.S. Supreme Court decision declared garb age hailing to be inter - state commerce and tike County 's requirement was made moot Garbage haulers told Joe commit teethey nowmake decisions aboutwhere to take our garbage based prima - nly on cost It costs more to process wane ataresource recovery facility than to dispose of it in a landfill. As aresult a growing proportion of Minnesota garbage is being taken to landfills in other states landfills often owned by tike largest garbage hailers