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CITY OF ROSEVILLE SPECIFICATIONS FOR COMPREHENSIVE RECYCLING SERVICES TO ALL RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSEHOLDS AND MULTI -FAMILY HOUSEHOLDS INTRODUCTION The City of Roseville, Minnesota seeks to enter into a new recycling contract with a company that has the resources and ability to provide comprehensive residential recycling services for the entire City. Those services include collection, processing, marketing and public education. Among the goals of the City are to maximize the fullest recovery possible of recyclables from all residents in the City, to market materials so they achieve their highest and best use, to achieve the most cost-effective solution, and to encourage innovation. Roseville residents have identified a city-wide goal to be an environmentally healthy community. And residents have identified various community values that environmental programs such as recycling should incorporate. Those community values are: • Collection — which includes Clean and quiet; Impact on street (size and weight of trucks), Easy to participate, Flexibility to Comingle, More materials picked up — particularly plastics, Materials are efficiently recycled (local markets, highest and best use for material), Rewards for adding value, multi -family dwelling recycling • Outreach — which includes Voluntary expansion to businesses, effective Frequent education of residents — with measurement, Community involvement, Annual report that includes information on what happens to material, outreach to low participating communities, outreach using electronic communications • Environmental Benefits — which includes Experience with Zero Waste events, reduced carbon footprint, Education and Leadership on Environmentally Preferred Purchasing (EPP), Local vendor -terminal and MRF locations These evaluation criteria are not presented in any special order. No ranking of these criteria within this RFP is intended or implied. 4