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found a new home with one of their neighbors. Recycling the old bins would have been great but reusing them takes full use of their lifecycle and is the best environmental benefit. Roseville Residents Experience Zero Waste For Themselves! Public events tend to be huge waste generators. This year Eureka Recychng's continued sponsorship of zero -waste events in Roseville provided residents with the opportunity to witness zero waste in action. Eureka Recycling helped make the following events zero -waste: • The Living Smarter Fair • The Earth Day Celebration at Harriet Alexander Nature Center • The Wild Rice Festival Roseville's efforts to address this problem, and the 93-99% diversion of waste from these public events, continues to show the city's incredible leadership. Eureka Recycling receives consistent requests from other cities to help them develop the knowledge and build the conunitment to waste reduction that would make them as successful as Roseville. Night to Unite We again joined the City of Roseville at Night to Unite celebrations all over the city. Together, we recognized it as an opportunity to connect with Roseville residents on a night where the community gathers. The City and Eureka Recycling see this event as a great opportunity to bring resources to residents, while taking the time to build community and answer questions. At 14 neighborhood gatherings Roseville city staff and Eureka Recycling staff distributed educational materials to help individuals learn how to recycle more. Staff spent time answering recycling questions and talking to residents about the environmental and economic benefits of recycling. Residents were responsive to not only the recycling information, but also additional recycling bins and to have conversations around zero -waste. Leading up to this event, Eureka Recycling once again supported the city's effort to encourage block party organizers to register their parties with the City by offering a free backyard composting bin to any registered neighborhood party that wanted one. A total of 13 compost bins were given to leaders of Roseville block parties. Registering parties helps the City to retain the information about who the energized and engaged residents are. This makes it easier to develop stronger relationships with those residents and allows them to help get community feedback and to help disseminate information on important connnunity initiatives to their neighbors. Several parties raffled the bins off to party attendees, while others used them to compost the food scraps. We also provided fact sheets about making neighborhood events zero -waste. This fact sheet is available on our composting website: htto://bit.l /� I; 6n Twin Cities Free Market Residents of the City of Roseville have the opportunity to exchange reusable materials via the Twin Cities Free Market (www.twincitiesfreema ket.ore). The Twin Cities Free Market is a grew way for residents to give and get free, reusable items while keeping them out of the landfill or incinerator. In 2014 Eureka Recycling completely redesigned the Free Market website to provide users an easier fonnat. In 2014, 719 Free Market users from Roseville listed over five tons (10,703 pounds) of usable items that were made up of mostly furniture, electronics, and appliances that were spared from the landfill or incinerator. 7