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Recommendations: <br />Continue requiring garbage haulers to offer yard waste and brush pick up service. <br />Include in a Citywide clean up day areas for yard waste and brush drop off. <br />Roseville study more organics collection programs and decide within the next few years if the <br />City should include organics collection. <br />Continue education campaigns about proper yard waste disposal including, but not limited to, <br />information about Ramsey County yard waste sites, information on mulching, composting, <br />Minnesota's phosphorus in lawn fertilizer ban, and low maintenance lawn care. These campaigns <br />should be coordinated with relevant State and County agencies and divisions and enlist the aid of <br />community groups when possible. <br />Urge Ramsey County to coordinate a Christmas tree disposal information campaign. Expand and <br />enhance the City's educational efforts about Christmas tree disposal. <br />Encourage Roseville's Parks and Recreation Department to offer educational classes in yard and <br />garden maintenance in cooperation with the University of Minnesota Extension Service's Master <br />Gardener program. <br />Construct demonstration plots with information stands in several City parks on backyard <br />composting, lawn maintenance techniques, mulching, etc. <br />Following major storms or other events that generate a significant amount of downed trees and <br />limbs Roseville have curbside collection of tree debris. <br />Speed up implementation of the State's phosphorus in lawn fertilizer ban by enacting a ban in <br />Roseville beginning January 1, 2003. <br />Expand the State's phosphorus in lawn fertilizer ban by including professional lawn services <br />among those banned for using phosphorus in lawn fertilizers. <br />69 <br />