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COMPOSITION OF MATERIALS <br />Eureka Recycling's role as the Zero -Waste Lab demonstrates our commitment to serving as a <br />testing ground for how single -stream recycling impacts our ability to get to zero waste. We're not <br />just doing single -stream recycling -we are tracking and reporting the impacts of single -stream on <br />the materials that we collect, process, and sell. With this information, we advocate for policy <br />change, improve our own single -stream system and help others do the Baine, so that each bottle, <br />can, and piece ofpaper that cannot first be prevented can be recycled to its highest environmental <br />use. <br />For more information ou the methodology of rhe composition analysis done by Eureka Recycling, please see Appendix B. <br />Residual Rates in Single -Sort Recycling Programs <br />"Residual" refers to the amount of material collected From residents that is not actually recycled. <br />One of the concerns that cities have when they make the move from a multi- or two -sort <br />program to a single -sort program is that more non -recyclable material will end up contaminating <br />2006 <br />2007 <br />2008 <br />2009 <br />2010 <br />2011 <br />2012 <br />2013 <br />2014 <br />Type of <br />Material <br />° /° of <br />Total <br />Tonnage <br />% of Total <br />Tonnage <br />% of Total <br />Tonnage <br />% of Total <br />Tonnage <br />° /° of <br />Total <br />Tonnage <br />% of Total <br />Tonnage <br />° <br />/° of <br />Total <br />Tonnage <br />° /° of <br />Total <br />Tonnage <br />% of Total <br />Tonnage <br />Total Annual <br />Tons <br />1441 <br />1681 <br />3,556 <br />3,281 <br />3,322 <br />3,244 <br />3,173 <br />1225 <br />3,212 <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 />54.40% <br />56.27% <br />Cardboard <br />6.71% <br />13.23% <br />4.50% <br />5.49% <br />7.34% <br />10.33% <br />9.091% <br />9.78% <br />9.59% <br />Boxboard <br />2.37% <br />7.60% <br />2.60% <br />5.49% <br />3.79% <br />7.04% <br />5.81'% <br />2.54% <br />4.48% <br />Wet Strength <br />0.36% <br />0.10'% <br />0.501% <br />0.00% <br />1.77% <br />0.46% <br />0.501% <br />0.58% <br />0.94% <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 />0.37% <br />0.00% <br />Milk Carious <br />& Juice Boxes <br />Not <br />collected <br />Negligible <br />Negligible <br />Negligible <br />0.02% <br />0.03% <br />0.47% <br />0.07% <br />0.31% <br />Textiles <br />0.40% <br />Ne>lirible <br />Nes-disable <br />0.02°% <br />0.02°% <br />Negligible <br />0.20% <br />0.09% <br />0.11% <br />Residual <br />0.24% <br />0.11% <br />0.50% <br />0.06°% <br />0.07°% <br />0.27% <br />0.19% <br />0.07% <br />N/A <br />TOTAL <br />Containers <br />Total Glass <br />75.40% <br />14.89% <br />76.60% <br />15.15% <br />74.20% <br />16.70% <br />72.72% <br />17.54% <br />72.81% <br />17.31% <br />69.79% <br />18.08% <br />73.40% <br />16.94°0 <br />66.90% <br />18.78% <br />70.60% <br />1738% <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 />3.30% <br />2.09% <br />Aluminum <br />1.48% <br />1.10'% <br />1.40% <br />1.40% <br />1.43% <br />2.10% <br />1.37% <br />1.99% <br />1.13% <br />Total Plastics <br />4.70'% <br />4.01'% <br />4.60'% <br />5.75% <br />5.671Y, <br />6.94'% <br />5.63'% <br />7.29% <br />6.13% <br />Residual <br />0.89% <br />0.15% <br />0.70% <br />0.17% <br />0.12% <br />0.60% <br />0.28% <br />1.74% <br />N/A <br />TOTAL <br />24.60% <br />22.40% <br />25.80% <br />27.28% <br />27.19% <br />30.21% <br />26.60% <br />33.10% <br />26.93% <br />Total Residual <br />1.13% <br />0.26% <br />1.20% <br />0.23% <br />0.19% <br />0.91% <br />0.47% <br />1.81r%o <br />2.47% <br />For more information ou the methodology of rhe composition analysis done by Eureka Recycling, please see Appendix B. <br />Residual Rates in Single -Sort Recycling Programs <br />"Residual" refers to the amount of material collected From residents that is not actually recycled. <br />One of the concerns that cities have when they make the move from a multi- or two -sort <br />program to a single -sort program is that more non -recyclable material will end up contaminating <br />