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have no responsibility to arrange garbage and recycling service, or feel less convection to the City, it can be harder to inform and engage ninth family complex residents in recycling programs. The keys to getting multi family complex residents to recycle are continuing education and convenience That point was stressed in the committee's discussion of ninth family complex recycling with ManPran Corcoran Recycling Coordinator for Brooklyn Park Brooklyn Center, Crystal and New Hope and in focus group discussions with multi Ready residents, ninth family complex owners and managers, and with garbage haulers. Cities with successful multi family recycling programs use multiple means of educating resi- dents. The cities work closely with private recycling companies and building managers to create simple easy to understand education pieces. Those pieces are usually given out when residents move in and are resent to residents periodically thereafter Another key is to find a resident or manager who serves as a contact and information s oume for residents. There also need to be dearly labeled recycling containers preferably with pictures. Brooklyn Punk's Boarvnent recycling toms A little innovation can also make the program convenient for ninth family complex residents to recycle An example is Corcoran 's award win — ning recycling tote bag (see photo at right). Owners and managers mount Velcro strips in units. The totes have Velcro and are attached to Velcro strips. The bags provide convenient storage place for the recycling that can easily be taken and dumped into a central recycling bin. The bags can be washed to prevent o dor and stains. The cities Corcoran works for paid for the bags and she coordinated with the complex owners and manager to have them installed Multi family complexes use storage bins in designated locations for collection of recyclable material. The recycling hauler then empties the storage bins. This system saves on storage space and makes it more convenient for residents to use However the bins can appear to be similar to garbage bins and contamination is a significant problem at multi family complexes according to recycling haulers, multi family residents and multi family managers and owners that took part in focus group discussions. An additional hurdle found in growing suburbs such as Brooklyn Park is the growing population of residents who speak English as a second language Based on focus group conversations with multi family residents, owners and managers day does not appear to be a significant issue in Roseville yet. However with approximately 18% of Roseville 's population living in multi family complexes the potential is there for language barriers to become a significant issue Results on English as a second language have not been released h on the 2000 Census yet According to the 1990 Census 17% ofRosevtlle residents said they did not speak English well About half of those residents (0 8%) spoke an Asian or Pacific Island language The only other