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Resource Recovery Fautifies At resource recovery facilities,garbageispro - cessed to create a fuel to be burned at electricity generating plants. Garbage is dumped ova tipping floor. Workers do a sight ivspe I and remove items that cannot be processed such as appliances and tires. Those items are separated out and shipped elsewhere for to disposal. Bulky items that cannot be easily processed such as mattresses and furniture as also set aside Occasionally they will be processed but most of Tye Resource Remvary, FonHry in Nawport the time they are sent to landfills for disposal. The waste is then run [Hough processing lines where ferrous metals (iron and steel) and alumi- removed for recycling . The rest of the material (typically paper and similar products with a high BTU value) is processed into smaller pieces for easier shipping and burning. This end product is called refuse derived fuel (RDF). It costs about $20 more a ton to process garbage [Hough aresource recovery facility than through alanced Thus topping fees are lvgher . But Minnesota resource recovery facilities use govern ment subsidies to make topping fees cost competitive Roseville onto tom Resource Recovery Fatitity All haulers in Ramsey County are required to send at least a portion of the garbage they collect to the Resource Recovery Facility in Newport . In 1986, Ramsey and Washington Counties entered into a twenty year Service Agreement with Northern States Power Company (now FEE Energy, me, a subsidiary of the newly renamed Xcel Energy). This obligation is passed along to resi dents as pact of the solid waste management fee on residents property tax bills. The purpose of the Facility is to minimize the counties dependence on landfills (me cling the State hierarchy and County goals) by pro cessing waste into RDF. This fuel is burned in place of coal at NRG power plants in Red Wing and Mankato. Trash is not a fossil fuel thus bums cleaner than coal as it contains no sulfur, a major contributor to add rain. Of the 395,459 tons of waste that was delivered from Ramsey and Washington Counties to the facility in 2000. . 77% was processedinto fuel 3% was ferrous metal that was recovered and recycled 20% was material that was landfllled because it could not be recovered for fuel or recy - cling The RDF produced in 2000 generated enough electricity to serve about 28,000 homes for one year The four small haulers that serve Roseville residents take all the trash they collect to the SIT While the large four have been taking much of their trash to out of state landfills. BFI owns Fake Area Disposal in southwest Washburn County in Wisconsin (as well as Pine Bend Landtoll in