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afee for dsposal ofbrush Little Canada and Shoreview as do other cities chip the brush, use some for Qty projects and make the majority available for residents to pickup free of charge Shoreview Environment Officer Gene Hruckeuberg says the program is so popular the (Sty will offer once a month brush drop off days tMoughout the summer in 2002. The drawbacks are that the program is labor intensive and Shoreview has to pay to dispose of stumps that cult be ground up with the City's chipper. Otgm csCollect ion: Organics are plant, food and paper products that can be easily composted into a destrable product Organics can be separated Gon other tr ash and collected as part of municipal program As mentioned earlier, commercial organics composting facilities are able to accept meat and dairy products that shouldn't go in backyard composts. That sbe- compost piles at commercial facilities reach nigher temperatures that kill bacteria in meat and dairy products. Commercial compost facilities can also accept pizza boxes and waxed containers that cult be put in with curbside recycling. The City of Hutchinson operates a curbside organics collection program with its hauler Waste Management Each participating household is given a 90 gallon wheeled organics cut similar to a trash cut (see photo at right) and 8 special 20 gallon kitchen waste compostable bags per month (residents can buy more bags or use paper shop - ping bags if they have greater volume) . Residents an put in food waste compostable cardboard such as pizza and fteezer boxes, paper products such as paper plates, napkins and paper towels along with yard waste (yard waste doesn't need to be bagged). A Too d Waste Recovery truck picks up the organics and hauls them to the City run compost facility. Hutchinson actively promotes organics collection as a way for residents to reduce their garbage and that A residents switch to a smaller size garbage container and/or to every other week service it will save residents money. The participation rate is right around 85 %(3,900 residential homes). Approximately 50% of residents have downsized then garbage container. The Qty pays for the program through resident fees, a state grant, funding from McLeod County, general Qty funds, sale of finished compost and flHough reduced landfill tipping fees. In 2001 St Paul conducted pilot program on curbside collection of organics Participants were given biodegradable bags for residents to collect the food waste and non recyclable paper prod - nets such as pizza boxes and waxed cartons. The organics were then put in a wheeled cut. Crews collected the organics weekly. The organics were taken to the Food Waste and Compost Facility in Rosemount Eureka Re cycling (formerly the Neighborho oil Energy Consortium) which coordinates St Paul s recycling programs found a high level of participation in the pilot are a and residents wanted to continue with organics collection . Eureka Recycling is can ently exploring ways that it might be able to offer curbside organics collection