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Residential curbside recycling }Gstory/1 Mils: Roseville has contracted for curbside recycling of single — family homes, duplexes, triplexes and four - plexes since July 1987. Super Cycle was the contractor from the program s inception until January 1999. Since then the City has contracted with Waste Management. Roseville 's curbside recycling program began in July 1987 with month pickup of newspapers, cans, bottles and con righted cardboard In January 1991 magazines and two types of plastics DIDPE and PETE) were added The curbsiderecyclingprogram was once a month pickup from July 1987 through July 1988. From August 1988 through December 1996 it was two pickups per month Since January 1997 pickup has been every other week In January 1999 boxboaid, Junk mail, phone do oks and books were added At the same tine the sorting guidelines were simplified Residents are only required to sort recyclables into two categories: paper products and containers. D espite these changes of more frequent collection and simplified sorting, ton - nages collected and the number of participating households has remained relatively stagnant since 1992 Annual set out rates in the past ten years have averaged between 54 and 68 percent with no pattern of growth Re cycling tonnages have been between 2,500 and 3,000 since 1992 with no pattern of continuing growth Informing Residents Roseville provides information to residents about how to use the curbside recycling program in a umber of formats Articles on waste reduction and recycling have been included in every edition of the Roseville Wrap to monthly resident newsletter since June 2001. Information is also included in New Resident packets, on the Qty's website on the Qty's cable channel and in brochures and fliers available at Qty facilities. In a 2002 survey of Roseville residents 74 percent said they get information on recycling from the `fro Seville Wrap, 26 percent get information from Waste Management, 21 percent from newspa pers, 19 percent It friends and neighbors, six percent from New Resident Packets, four percent from the Qty's website and three percent from Qty Staff Residents in a focus group of homeowners said they would like additional information about recycling. Many said it was becaus e they were not sure what is and is not acceptable in the curbside recycling program. This prompted staff to put additional information in the Roseville Wrap newsletter to meet these residents needs. Roseville used to have volunteers that would put up yard signs to remind their neighbors when to put out their recycling (see photo above). In 1999, the Qty surveyed sign volunteers and found that most were not using the signs so the program was discontinued Cos[ Roseville pays Waste Management $2.05 per household per month ($19,003 50) for collection.