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Engaging with residents through education, including the Guide to Recycling, educational tags <br />and postcards, continues to lead to a lower residual rate. This outreach and education also creates <br />buy -in to the program inspiring people to support their zero -waste recycling program. Regular <br />communications and household - specific education efforts make it easy for Roseville residents to <br />stay informed and be clear about what is and is not recyclable in their city. <br />Type of <br />Material <br />2006 <br />% of Total <br />Tonnage <br />2007 <br />% of Total <br />Tonnage <br />2008 <br />% of Total <br />Tonnage <br />2009 <br />% of Total <br />Tonnage <br />2010 <br />% of Total <br />Tonnage <br />2011 <br />% of Total <br />Tonnage <br />2012 <br />% of Total <br />Tonnage <br />Total <br />Annual <br />Tons <br />3,441 <br />3,681 <br />3,556 <br />3,281 <br />3,322 <br />3,244 <br />3,173 <br />Papers <br />News Mix <br />63.98% <br />56.46% <br />66.00% <br />61.65% <br />59.68% <br />51.53% <br />56.86% <br />Cardboard <br />6.71% <br />13.23% <br />4.50% <br />5.48% <br />7.34% <br />10.33% <br />9.09% <br />Boxboard <br />2.37% <br />7.60% <br />2.60% <br />5.48% <br />3.79% <br />7.04% <br />5.81% <br />Wet Strength <br />0.36% <br />0.10% <br />0.50% <br />0.00% <br />1.77% <br />0.46% <br />0.50% <br />Phone Books <br />1.33% <br />0.11% <br />0.10% <br />0.02% <br />0.12% <br />0.14% <br />0.28% <br />Milk Cartons <br />& Juice Boxcs <br />Not <br />collected <br />Negligible <br />Negligible <br />Negligible <br />0.02% <br />0.03% <br />0.47% <br />Textiles <br />0.40% <br />Negligible <br />Negligible <br />0.02% <br />0.02% <br />Negligible <br />0.20% <br />Residual <br />0.24% <br />0.11% <br />.5% <br />0.06% <br />0.07% <br />0.27% <br />0.19% <br />TOTAL <br />75.40% <br />76.60% <br />74.20% <br />72.72% <br />72.81% <br />69.79% <br />73.40% <br />Containers <br />Total Glass <br />14.89% <br />15.15% <br />16.70% <br />17.54% <br />17.31% <br />18.08% <br />16.94% <br />Steel Cans <br />2.64% <br />2.00% <br />2.40% <br />2.43% <br />2.65% <br />2.49% <br />2.38% <br />Aluminum <br />1.48% <br />1.10% <br />1.40% <br />1.40% <br />1.43% <br />2.10% <br />1.37% <br />Total Plastics <br />4.70% <br />4.01% <br />4.60% <br />5.75% <br />5.67% <br />6.94% <br />5.63% <br />Residual <br />0.89% <br />0.15% <br />0.70% <br />0.17% <br />0.12% <br />0.60% <br />0.28% <br />TOTAL <br />24.60% <br />22.40% <br />25.80% <br />27.28% <br />27.19% <br />30.21% <br />26.60% <br />Total <br />Residual <br />1.13% <br />0.26% <br />1.2% <br />0.23% <br />0.19% <br />0.91% <br />0.47% <br />For more information on the methodology of the composition analysis done by Eureka Recycling, please see Appendix B. <br />Annual Participation and Set -Out Rate Studies <br />Roseville is one of the few cities in the metropolitan area in which the actual city - specific <br />participation trend infonnation is available. Roseville continues to maintain one of the highest <br />participation levels in the country! This shows that the recycling in Roseville is easy and that <br />residents get consistent feedback on what is happening in their program. <br />4 <br />