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Bulky Items Recommendation The commitrebelieves residents should be fiillyinformed ofthe need f rproper disposal of dill cultitems and of all me public and private programs to hold them recycle and Cape se o f these items Tohclpinformresi - dents tie committee recommends Roseville change its licensing for garbage haulers to require they annually inform residents of all me haulers waste services and me ties for those services Electronics Recmnmmdations: France in a Citywide dean up day and area for clock onio drop off Require the vendor guanance me electronics material it receives ransins in the U.S. for processing motor disposal prompt age the Minnesota Office of Roviron- mental Assistance to promote electronics recycling pro grams and support the MOEAs efforts at pro duct stewardship. Garbage While Roseville contracts for recycling service residents contract individually for garbage seffmce Carrm[ system Roseville homeowners centractword my of eight companies licensedbythe Qty to remove their garbage Homeowners may change haulers as theywish and haulers are free to recruit customers as they wish This system is Bled Open Collection Although me system is not completely It of regulation by Bo seville Following the 1991 rep oft, the City was divided into five zones each word its own day ofthe week for pickup of garbage and recycling. The City 0 s has a set of service standards required for licensing in include offering separate pickup of Ford wane and brush and offering walk up service for which haulers can charge extra Therein however, no monitoring for compliance Roseville residents surveyed are generally pleased wind men garbage service Sony three percent rated it excellent and 33% rated it good Seventy -nine percent said the rates seem fair for the service provided, 16% said the rates were too high for me service provided. Focus group members said theywerepleased that thargarbagehailerpickeduptlrartrashand tookitaway so that they didn'thavem Lurch aboutitanymore Butthat didn't stop focus group members and urveyparmpants from wondering what happened to met tr ash Tltirty -tevo peceotof residents surveyed said they were very con coined where their garbage goes, 4S %were somewhat concerned and 20% were not very concerned Nivery percent said they would prefer their garb age goes to a resew cc recovery facility where it is armed into fuel for an electricity generating plant instead of going to a landfill statelliearchy The State agrees that itwould rather see gar - Idmegotoaresewccrecovery facility In19S0 me Minnesota Legislature established an order o fprefemoce for managing waste H order to protect me state's environment and public health This preferential order is ® Reduction and Reuse ® Recycling ® Yard and Fee of Waste Comp owing ® Resource Recovery ® I.andfilling word methane collection ® hankering with no promote collection